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The southern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula shifted 2 meters after the earthquake.
5 August, 12:02
Scientists from the Kamchatka branch of the Geophysical Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences have made a preliminary calculation based on the results of geodynamic observations. After a powerful earthquake on July 30, the peninsula shifted by almost 2 meters.
“It turned out that we all moved well to the southeast. The maximum displacements after the earthquake were observed in the southern part of the peninsula. There they amounted to almost two meters, which is comparable to the horizontal displacements after the earthquake in Tohoku, Japan, in 2011,” the researchers said.
Recall that on July 30, an 8.8-magnitude earthquake occurred off the coast of Kamchatka. It was the strongest since 1953.
