What the records say
- When
- 16 Oct 1737
- Kind
- Tsunami
- Coordinates
- 51.10° N, 158.00° E
- Deaths
- 100
- Max water height m
- 15.24
- Runups
- 7
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
1737 Kamchatka earthquake
Earthquake in present-day Russia
The 1737 Kamchatka earthquake occurred on October 17 near the southern tip of present-day Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. The shock was felt at approximately 03:00 local time or 16:00 UTC by residents on the peninsula and Kuril Islands. The earthquake struck at a shallow depth of roughly 40 km beneath the peninsula with an estimated magnitude of 9.0–9.3 on the moment magnitude scale.
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The source
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page