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Magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes Russia's Kamchatka region on Friday

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The quake hit deep underground, around 150 km down, about 146 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a city of roughly 187,000 people. Seismic agencies differed slightly on its strength, with the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre recording 6.9 while India's National Centre for Seismology and the US weather agency NOAA said 7.0. NOAA confirmed that no tsunami warning, advisory, watch, or threat was in effect.

By BriefTea Editorial · 16 October 2026 at 7:01

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