What the records say
- When
- 5 Dec 1997
- Kind
- Tsunami
- Coordinates
- 54.84° N, 162.03° E
- Max water height m
- 8
- Source quake magnitude
- 7.8
- Runups
- 19
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
1997 Kamchatka earthquake
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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- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page