Earthquake in Kamchatka led to evacuation of almost three thousand residents of the Kuril Islands

About 2,700 people, including nearly 600 children, were evacuated to safe areas in the Kuril Islands after a tsunami threat caused by the strongest earthquake in decades off the coast of Kamchatka. This was reported to TASS by emergency services.

According to the press service of the Sakhalin Region government, the tsunami flooded a tent camp of the Russian Geographical Society (RGO), but there were no casualties.

"People were warned in time, and no one was injured. 30 people moved to a safe place. A shift vehicle was sent for them," the press service indicated.

According to emergency services, the camp was located on Cape Kurbatov on Shumshu Island.

On the morning of July 30, an earthquake with a magnitude of up to 8.7 occurred in the region, which became the most powerful since 1952. Authorities recorded a series of aftershocks, the number of ambulance calls increased, and in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the facade of a kindergarten partially collapsed.

In the Sakhalin Region, the port of Severo-Kurilsk and a fishing enterprise were flooded, and a wave up to 30 cm high reached the shores of Japan. The Kamchatka branch of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences added that more than 50 seismic events were recorded in Kamchatka after the earthquake.