In Kamchatka rescuers completed inspection of residential apartment buildings and private houses, social facilities, boilers, water intakes after a strong earthquake on Saturday afternoon. “No injuries or damage,” – the press service of the regional EMERCOM of Russia.
“In the updated information objects of the economy, housing, electricity, education, health facilities, boiler plants are operating normally. Air and transport links between the settlements of the edge is not broken, “- said in a statement.
In order to assess the situation in the Far Eastern regional center of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry and the General Directorate Ministry of Emergencies Russia’s Kamchatka region deployed operational headquarters.
Push magnitude 7 occurred at 15.25 local time on the territory of the Yelizovo District. On the surface of the earth tremors were felt at 5-6. After the earthquake, there were at least seven aftershocks of magnitude of 2 to 5. As mentioned in social networks inhabitants of the peninsula, such a strong earthquake was not long ago. The apartments were falling off the shelves books, dishes. Many people ran into the street, but was shaking and there.
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In Kamchatka, a third of all earthquakes in Russia . Kuril-Kamchatka region – part of the “Pacific Ring of Fire”, an enormous zone of seismic and volcanic activity along the border of the Pacific Ocean.
There oceanic plate sinks beneath the continent with velocity of about ten centimeters per year. Accumulation and strain relief in the bowels of the earth leads to constant earthquakes.
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