The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) Says that there is no longer a danger that Tsunami waves are the Russian Kamchatka -Schierteland after five powerful earthquakes – the largest with a size of 7.4 – struck in nearby waters on Sunday.
The largest earthquake was at a depth of 20 kilometers and was 144 kilometers east of the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, which has a population of 180,000.
The smaller – but still substantial – earthquakes were registered before and after, including a Quake with a size of 6.7.
The PTWC initially said that there was a danger to large tsunami waves, but later lowered his warning before he finally said that the danger had passed.
The Russian Ministry of Emergency situations also published a Tsunami warning after the largest earthquake, in which residents of coastal differences were encouraged to stay away from the coast.
There were no immediate reports of victims or damage, and the ministry said it had no immediate plans to evacuate residents.
An earlier tsunami warning for Hawaii was also canceled.
The German research center for Geosciences (GFZ) indicated that two earthquakes of more than Magnitude-6.5 near the coast of Kamchatka, in Far East, Russian, early on Sunday.
It measured the earthquakes at 6.6 and 6.7 and the depth of both at 10 kilometers.
Measurements of earthquakes often vary in the first hours after they occur.
There were no immediate reports of victims.
The TASS press office of the Russia reported by the State reported, with reference to local emergency services, that waves of up to 60 cm could reach the sparsely populated Aleutsky district on the Commander Islands.
Waves of up to 40 cm can influence the Ust-Kamchatsky region in the eastern Kamchatka, while the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Urban District-it is most densely populated area in the southeastern part of the Peninsula and the home of the regional capital-Misschien of a maximum of 15 cm.
On November 4, 1952, a Magnitude-9.0 earthquake caused damage in Kamchatka, but no deaths reported despite the fact that 9.1-meter waves in Hawaii was deposited.
AP/Reuters
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