Russian scientists foresee that the process of secondary tremors, increasingly with less magnitude, can extend for several months
A Richter 6.8 magnitude earthquake reached the coast of the peninsula from the Far East of the Russian Unified Geophysical Service (SGU) on its Telegram channel. According to Sismologists, this is a new secondary tremor of the 8.8 magnitude earthquake that took place last Wednesday (30) in the region and was the largest since 1952, activating Tsunami’s warnings and warnings along the American coast of the Pacific. Russian scientists predict that the process of secondary tremors, increasingly with less magnitude, can extend for several months.
The SGU said that in the last 24 hours, ten tremors were felt in the capital of the peninsula, Petropavlovsk-Kamchaski, raising to more than 65 the number of replicas of the 30 July earthquake. Today’s earthquake occurred 279 kilometers from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski, at a depth of 25.9 kilometers.
“We are witnessing extreme events in Kamchatka,” said the director of the Institute of Vulcanology and Seismology of the Far East of the Academy of Sciences of Russia, Alexei Ozerov, in statements to the Russian official news agency “Tass”. The scientist said the last major earthquake in Kamchatka considerably increased volcanic activity on the peninsula. “We associate the eruptions with the last earthquake, which activated the magmatic centers and pumped them additional energy,” Ozerov said, adding that the inactive Krasheninnnikov volcano, approximately 1,400 years ago, started erupting today.
The Kamchatka Peninsula is one of the territories with the highest volcanic and seismic activity in the world, being dangerous for civil aviation due to abundant ash clouds that volcanoes still active expelling periodically.
*With information from EFE
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