STORY: :: This footage reveals tsunami waves hitting a coastal city in Russia’s Sakhalin area following an earthquake
:: Severo-Kurilsk, Russia
:: July 30, 2025
The movies confirmed buildings and different particles within the city of Severo-Kurilsk being washed inland by the robust waves and the whole shoreline inundated.
Reuters was in a position to affirm the situation by buildings, water physique and terrain which match with satellite tv for pc photos. Reuters was in a position to affirm the date by the corroborating native studies and official statements.
The massive quake has prompted warnings and evacuations stretching throughout the Pacific Ocean. A number of individuals had been injured within the distant Russian area, whereas a lot of Japan’s jap seaboard – devastated by a strong earthquake and tsunami in 2011 – was ordered to evacuate.
The U.S. Geological Survey stated the earthquake was shallow at a depth of 19.3 km (12 miles), and was centred 119 km (74 miles) east-southeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a metropolis of 165,000. It revised the magnitude up from 8.0 earlier, and reported a robust aftershock of magnitude 6.9 quickly after.
