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An 8.8 Magnitude Earthquake Hit Kamchatka, Russia. The Videos Are Wild

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30
Jul


Videos of the Kamchatka, Russia, earthquake shaking buildings, the ground, homes, and even a hospital surgery room have gone viral.

The 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck on July 29, triggering concerns about tsunamis in Hawaii and the west coast of the United States.

Although some sites said the quake was an 8.7 magnitude, Reuters put the magnitude at 8.8.

RT posted a video showing doctors in Kamchatka conducting a surgery when the quake hit. According to the site, they “kept calm during the powerful quake- and never stopped the surgery.”

The “shallow earthquake damaged buildings and injured several people in the remote Russian region,” Reuters reported, adding that Japan’s eastern seaboard “was ordered to evacuate” as a result.

Reuters noted that the earthquake damaged a kindergarten, but no serious injuries or deaths occurred.

One viral video of the inside of a home shaking was from a different earthquake and erroneously attributed to Kamchatka by online users. A video of fishermen rescuing whales on the beach is also old and not from the recent quake. Another viral video of a person at a desk is from a different earthquake as well.

“At 11:24am local time (7/30/2025), a magnitude 8.8 earthquake occurred near the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia,” wrote the U.S. Geological Survey. 

“Tsunami alerts were issued around the Pacific Basin. It followed a magnitude 7.4 foreshock on July 20 and is near the epicenter of the 1952 magnitude 9.0 event.”

The site explained further, “The July 29, 2025, M8.8 earthquake east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, occurred as the result of shallow reverse faulting. At the location of this earthquake, the Pacific plate is moving west-northwest with respect to the North America plate at about 80 mm/yr.” 

The site continued, “Note, the North American plate extends westward beyond the North American continent. The earthquake’s location and sense of motion is consistent with faulting on the subduction zone plate interface of the Kuril-Kamchatka arc.”

The Survey added, “The 29 July 2025, Mw 8.8 Kamchatka earthquake is the largest event to occur globally since the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku, Japan earthquake, and among the top ten largest earthquakes to occur globally since 1900. The 29 July 2025, Mw 8.8 event is the latest in a sequence of earthquakes occurring offshore of the Kamchatka peninsula that began 10 days earlier.”

The statement continued: “These earthquakes occurred in the seismically active Kuril-Kamchatka subduction zone, where the Pacific plate subducts northwest beneath the North America plate.”

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