OREANDA-NEWS The southern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula has shifted almost two meters to the southeast after a powerful earthquake, according to the Kamchatka branch of the Unified Geophysical Service (USGS) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

"We made a preliminary calculation based on the results of geodynamic observations. It turned out that we all had a good trip to the southeast. The maximum coseismic displacements after the earthquake on July 30 were observed in the southern part of the peninsula. There they amounted to almost 2 meters, which is comparable to the horizontal displacements after the 2011 earthquake in Tohoku, Japan," the report says.

According to the USGS branch, the Petropavlovsk cluster of stations and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky itself, respectively, "shifted somewhat more modestly."

"This pattern of displacements is consistent with the preliminary model of movements in the hearth, where the maximum was reached on the southern flank of our huge hearth, which provided a full-fledged macroseismic effect in Severo-Kurilsk, and an insufficiently full-fledged one in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky," the seismologists note.

On July 30, a powerful earthquake occurred in the morning near Kamchatka, it became the strongest since 1952. Its magnitude reached 8.8. The intensity of the tremors in various areas of the peninsula ranged from six to seven and above points. A tsunami alert was issued. This earthquake of up to eight magnitude was also felt in Severo-Kurilsk, after which four tsunami waves came there, which partially damaged the port infrastructure and other industrial infrastructure facilities.