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Re:M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued by mordechai9000 on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @09:12PM (#44730061)
Has anyone heard how bad it was in Petropovlosk? USGS estimates "severe" shaking with the possibility of moderate to heavy damage and a chance of fatalities.

They have had quite a swarm of quakes there over the last couple of weeks, including one that was M7+ around the 20th.

Re:M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued by rhet0rica on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @09:51PM (#44730262)
Severo-Kurilsk, an island town destroyed by a similar tsunami in 1956, lost its port again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severo-Kurilsk — the rest of the settlement was rebuilt on higher ground, leaving only the port vulnerable.

The settlement is notable as having belonged to the Japanese in late 19th and early 20th centuries, who once relocated islanders there. Russian Wikipedia says they were Ainu.

Re:M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued by jychang on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @12:10AM (#44730829)
https://www.google.com/maps/place/50°40'00.0"N+156°07'00.0"E...

That port right next to the water has probably disappeared.

Re:M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued by decimalenough on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @09:30PM (#44730162)
It's a very remote, very thinly populated area. The entire Kamchatka peninsula has under 300,000 people, who (statistically) have 1 km2 each.
Re:M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued by cozzyd on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @10:25PM (#44730411)
Sure but a bunch of those people live in Petropavlovsk and surroundings
Re:M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued by yreew on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @12:13AM (#44730842)
Death of 1 person is a tragedy. Death of thousands of people is just statistics.
Re:M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued by shusaku on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @09:30PM (#44730160)
So far the news here has only shown damage to a school (which apparently was empty due to repair work), and some bad flooding in one part. Let’s hope for the best.
Re:M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued by ivan_gammel on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @10:56PM (#44730562)
Officials report M5-6 in the area, minor damage, several injuries, tell locals not to go to the beach in the next few weeks. They are used to it…
Re:M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued by czhu12 on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @09:21PM (#44730116)
On Twitter, a search for Russia brings up some videos of pretty severe shaking
Re:M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued by ansgri on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @04:21AM (#44731969)
From what I see in Russian-language news, only relatively minor damage. I've lived in Petropavlovsk, it's an ugly city in various states of disrepair, but they do take seismic reinforcements seriously, like mag 7 should cause zero damage according to plan.

It's basically immune to tsunamis as it's protected by a bay with narrow entrance that extinguishes the waves, also most of the city is raised at least 10m above the sea.

Re:M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued by realaaa on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @08:12AM (#44733168)
it's not That ugly :)

but yeah I totally get what you mean, better watch volcanoes and nature than the urban scape around

indeed thankfully not that much damage there

Re:M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued by piskov on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @05:00AM (#44732164)
Current official news:

Around 3k were evacuated in the region to safe areas as a precaution: aftershocks are expected for a month.

Some buildings (including hospitals) have cracks due to an earthquake.

Some minor damage to power lines, some near-shore flooding at some businesses.

All in all, it’s ok.