1959 Kamchatka earthquake

1959 Kamchatka earthquake is located in Russia

The 1959 Kamchatka earthquake occurred on May 4, 1959 at 19:15 local time (07:15 UTC). It had a magnitude of M_w 8.0, or M_s 8.2. The epicenter was near the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, U.S.S.R. Building damage was reported in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.^[2][3] The maximal intensity was VIII MSK.^[4] The intensity in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky was about VIII MSK. The earthquake triggered a tsunami. A tsunami of a 0.2 m runup was recorded in Massacre Bay, Alaska, U.S.A.^[5] Subduction is active along about the southern half of the eastern coast of Kamchatka Peninsula, between its junctions with the Aleutian Islands and the Kuril Islands.^[6]

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