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M 8.8 earthquake – 2025 Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia Earthquake

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Local time: Jul 30, 2025 · 11:24 (UTC+12)

GreatShallow · 35 kmPAGER redTsunami information issued Reviewed by a seismologist
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Magnitude
8.8moment magnitude (mww)
Depth
35 kmShallow earthquake
Epicenter
52.495, 160.239126 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
Energy released
239 megatons of TNTabout 15,934 × Hiroshima
Felt reports
125"Did You Feel It?" responses
Shaking intensity
8.7max. instrumental (MMI)
Aftershocks
500M2.5+ within 500 km, up to 60 days
Significance
2,114USGS score, 0–1,000+
The strongest here since 1952

The last earthquake at least as strong within 300 km struck on Nov 4, 1952.

How strong was it?

Great earthquake. It released 239 megatons of TNT, 501,187 times the energy of a magnitude 5.0. Bars use the magnitude scale: every step is about 32 times more energy.

Chile 1960 M 9.5
Japan 2011 M 9.1
This earthquake M 8.8
San Francisco 1906 M 7.9
Turkey 2023 M 7.8
Haiti 2010 M 7.0
Northridge 1994 M 6.7

Aftershocks

500 earthquakes of M2.5+ within 500 km in the 60 days after.

The strongest earthquakes within 300 km

Since 1900, around Russia.

In the week before

Earthquakes within 500 km in the 7 days before this one: possible foreshocks.