Number of aftershocks in Kamchatka decreased by 40% in a week
The number of aftershocks after a powerful earthquake in Kamchatka in Russia’s Far East has decreased by 40% in a week, the regional branch of the Russian Emergencies Ministry told TASS.
"213 aftershocks have been registered in seven days. For comparison, there were 359 of them in the past week," the department noted.
As TASS was told by the Kamchatka branch of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the aftershock process after the tremor is developing according to a typical scenario. The number of felt earthquakes is decreasing, however, scientists do not rule out the possibility of another tremor with a magnitude of about five points.
A powerful earthquake struck off Kamchatka’s coast on the morning of July 30. According to the authorities, it measured at 8.8, becoming the strongest earthquake to hit the region since 1952. The Kamchatka branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Geophysical Service estimated the magnitude of the quake at 8.7. A state of high alert was declared in Kamchatka, while a state of emergency was declared in the Severo-Kurilsky District of the neighboring Sakhalin Region. The quake triggered a tsunami in the Pacific Ocean, which prompted the authorities in Japan, the US and the Philippines to issue tsunami warnings.
Earlier it was reported that Klyuchevskoy volcano in Russia’s Kamchatka again sent 10-kilometer ash plume into sky.
