One of the six largest earthquakes ever recorded, and the strongest anywhere in over a decade. It struck a remote Pacific coast and sent tsunami warnings racing around the entire ocean rim.
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DownloadThe 2025 Kamchatka earthquake struck on July 29, 2025, registering magnitude 8.8 (moment magnitude, Mw). Each whole step on the moment-magnitude scale is roughly 32 times more energy, so this released on the order of 15,849× the energy of a magnitude 6.0 earthquake.
Its epicenter was located near 52.49°N, 160.24°E, at a depth of about 35 km — a shallow crustal earthquake. Shallow earthquakes like this release their energy close to the surface, which is why the shaking near the epicenter was so violent.
An estimated 1 person was killed.