Moscow, Russia – A new earthquake struck the Russian Far East coast on Saturday.
This happened amid expectations that this earthquake would cause dangerous tsunami waves.
The US Geological Survey reported that an earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale struck the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East on Saturday.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center indicated the possibility of “dangerous” waves forming along the coasts located within 300 kilometers of the earthquake’s epicenter.
For its part, the German Research Center for Earth Sciences reported that the earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 kilometers on the eastern coast of the Kamchatka region.
The US alert system issued a tsunami warning following the earthquake.
