Earthquake — Russia: Kamchatka: Ust-Kamchatsk, Petropavlovsk

When

5 Dec 1997

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

7.8

Where

Russia

Coordinates

54.84° N, 162.03° E

Intensity mmi

7

Depth km

33

Earthquake on the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia

The 1997 Kamchatka earthquake, or 1997 Kronotsky earthquake, occurred on December 5 at 11:26 UTC near the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. It was an Mw 7.7 (7.6–7.8) earthquake and was felt with intensity MM V in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy. A 60 cm (23.6 in) tsunami was recorded in Kahului, 47 cm in Hilo, and 15 cm in Unalaska. The local tsunami generated by this earthquake affected a mostly unpopulated region.

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• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “на Камчатке произошло землетрясение магнитудой 7.9, произошедшее в 11:26 по местному времени”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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