Russia in the far eastern area of the Kamchatka Peninsula was hit by a devastating earthquake of 8.8 at the beginning of July, which also triggered a monstrous tsunami up to 4 meters (13 feet) in height across the Pacific Ocean.
Several people in Russia were injured and the coast recorded a high tsunami of 3-4 meters (10-13 feet), according to Sergei Lebedev, regional minister of emergency situations, Reuters reported.
Japan also issued a warning to the tsunami for its east coast, the United States in Hawaii and the west coast and the various Pacific Islands.
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USGC warns against “dangerous waves of tsunami”
The American geological survey (USGC) said in its report that the earthquake occurred at a shallow depth of 19.3 km (12 miles) and was concentrated 119 km (74 miles) east of Petropavlovská-Kamchat, the city of 1,65,000 people.
Furthermore, the American warning system Tsunami also released a warning of “dangerous tsunami waves” exceeding 3 meters (10 feet) in height, over the next three hours.
Some regions that have given the warning include: Ecaudor, Chile, Hawaii, Japan, Russia, Solomon Islands and a lot of Pacific and the American West Coast, including Alaska.
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“Fire Ring” and why the entire Pacific region is affected…
The Russian Eastern region, including the affected Kamchatka Peninsula, lies in a geologically active area known as the “Pacific Fire Ring”. The region is highly susceptible to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
The “Fire Ring”, the arc of seismic mistakes, saw two large earthquakes in 2009, which, according to the AP report, triggered tsunami, which killed at least 192 people in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga.
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In 2011, the east coast of Japan was evacuated after a devastating earthquake in the region that caused the Fukushima disaster.
Geographically, the Fire Ring of the Pacific Ocean extends from Russia and Japan in the east, on the west coast of the US and volcanoes in the frozen south in Antarctica, including Mount Erebus, the southernmost volcano on Earth. Ocean trenches are also part of a fire ring. That is why the main eruption or earthquake in the region will launch warnings around the world.
Fire Ring: The area moves across the north coast of Antarctica, the east coast of Asia and New Zealand and the west coast of South America, North America and a number of Pacific Islands scattered through the huge ocean, with Bering Sea north. Note: The map does not include Antarctica at the top.
In particular, the Russian Academy of Sciences said that today’s earthquake is the strongest to hit the region since 1952.
Danila Chebrov, director of the Branch of the Geophysical Service Kamchatka, published on the telegram: “Aftershocks are currently in progress … Their intensity remains relatively high. However, in the near future is not expected to tremble.
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About the “ring of fire”
Depending on the function of the National Geographic Education, the Fire Ring is 40,000 km of horseshoes in the shape of 452 volcanoes from the southern tip of South America, along the coast of North America, through the Bering Strait, down through Japan and New Zealand and further south in Antarctica.
Geographic activity is caused by constant shift of tectonic plates that cause earthquakes or volcanic eruptions along the failure lines. Remarkable volcanoes in the belt include Antarctica’s Mount Erebus, Mt Fuji in Japan and Mount St Helen’s in Washington, USA.
(With Reuters and AP inputs)
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