The “monster” earthquake in Russia, whichever was some earthquakes expected World news
As earthquakes go, this was a monster.
In 8.8 by size, there with Stronger.
It is also one that some earthquake scientists expected.
On Wednesday’s earthquake, in the far -east of the Russian, a mistake that runs along the Korel Kamchatka trench – a scars on the sea bottom caused by tectonic diving in the Pacific Ocean under the paintings of North America and Ouzak.
The kindergarten was damaged due to an earthquake in Petrovagsk-Kameshasky, Russia. Pre -approval: The Russian Ministry of Emergency Cases/Reuters
The integration area is called, it is one of a series of notorious “Fire Ring” in the Pacific Ocean. The friction caused by changing the panels nourishes volcanoes, but it is also notorious to cause “Megathrust” and the resulting TSUNAMIS.
It was the last major earthquake in the Camshatka Peninsula in 1952, just 30 km (18 miles) from the last earthquake center.
The American Geological Survey is estimated that the six value of the tectonic movement has arisen along the Kuril-Kamchatka trench since then.
A series of “Foreshocks”, including an earthquake of 7.4 size on July 20, suggested that those seven strains have been transferred along the error, indicating that a large earthquake near the 1952 earthquake might be imminent.
But the moment the earthquake is always impossible to predict, as well as the size or spread of the resulting tsunami.
A huge earthquake does not always correspond to a huge tsunami.
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The collapse of rocks while the earthquake strikes the Far East of Russia
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A group of factors, including the amount of movement on the sea floor, the area where the movement is spread, and the depth of the above, all play a role.
From the limited information so far, even in the areas near the earthquake center, the tsunami waves were continuing, but anywhere near those that struck Japan in 2011.
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The 9.1 earthquake that caused Tohoku Tsunami to generate a wave of about 40 meters in places. The joint effects of the earthquake and tintami showed nearly 20,000 people.
According to the Kremlin, no death has been reported in Russia yet.
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The first tsunami waves struck Russia and Japan
It is a very populated area, which means that victims will be less than almost less than similar earthquakes in Japan and Indonesia.
It is also possible that the introduction preceding the Kamchatka earthquake has helped save lives.
After the July 20 earthquake in Kamchatka, local tsunami alerts warned people to go to higher land.
When this last earthquake hit, more than 10 times more power than the past, people may have acted even before the warnings arrived.
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