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Has anyone heard how bad it was in Petropovlosk? USGS estimates "severe" shaking with the possibility of moderate to heavy damage and a chance of fatalities. T
by mordechai9000 1y ago
Has anyone heard how bad it was in Petropovlosk? USGS estimates "severe" shaking with the possibility of moderate to heavy damage and a chance of fatalities.
They have had quite a swarm of quakes there over the last couple of weeks, including one that was M7+ around the 20th.
- decimalenough 1y agoIt's a very remote, very thinly populated area. The entire Kamchatka peninsula has under 300,000 people, who (statistically) have 1 km2 each.
- czhu12 1y agoOn Twitter, a search for Russia brings up some videos of pretty severe shaking
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- shusaku 1y agoSo far the news here has only shown damage to a school (which apparently was empty due to repair work), and some bad flooding in one part. Let’s hope for the best.
- rhet0rica 1y agoSevero-Kurilsk, an island town destroyed by a similar tsunami in 1956, lost its port again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severo-Kurilsk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severo-Kurilsk — the rest of the settlement was rebuilt on higher ground, leaving only the port vulnerable. The settlement is notable as having belonged to the Japanese in late 19th and early 20th centuries, who once relocated islanders there. Russian Wikipedia says they were Ainu.
- jychang 1y agohttps://www.google.com/maps/place/50°40'00.0"N+156°07'00.0"E/@50.6760515,156.1193713,3770m/ https://www.google.com/maps/place/50°40'00.0"N+156°07'00.0"E... That port right next to the water has probably disappeared.
- ivan_gammel 1y agoOfficials report M5-6 in the area, minor damage, several injuries, tell locals not to go to the beach in the next few weeks. They are used to it…
- ansgri 1y agoFrom what I see in Russian-language news, only relatively minor damage. I've lived in Petropavlovsk, it's an ugly city in various states of disrepair, but they do take seismic reinforcements seriously, like mag 7 should cause zero damage according to plan. It's basically immune to tsunamis as it's protected by a bay with narrow entrance that extinguishes the waves, also most of the city is raised at least 10m above the sea.
- realaaa 1y agoit's not That ugly :) but yeah I totally get what you mean, better watch volcanoes and nature than the urban scape around indeed thankfully not that much damage there
- piskov 1y agoCurrent official news: Around 3k were evacuated in the region to safe areas as a precaution: aftershocks are expected for a month. Some buildings (including hospitals) have cracks due to an earthquake. Some minor damage to power lines, some near-shore flooding at some businesses. All in all, it’s ok.