After the powerful earthquake on July 30, the southern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula moved by almost two meters to the southeast, the Kamchatka branch of the Unified Geophysical Service (UGS) of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported, Interfax reports, Focus reports.
„We made preliminary calculations based on the results of geodynamic observations. It turned out that we all moved quite a bit to the southeast. The maximum displacements after the earthquake on July 30 were observed in the southern part of the peninsula. There they amounted to almost 2 meters, which is comparable to the horizontal displacements after the 2011 earthquake in Tohoku, Japan“, the message states.
“This picture of displacements corresponds to the preliminary model of movements in the epicenter, where the maximum was reached on the southern flank of the huge epicenter, which provided a full-fledged macroseismic effect in Severo-Kurilsk and an insufficiently full-fledged one in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky“, seismologists note.
On the morning of July 30, a powerful earthquake occurred near Kamchatka - the strongest since 1952. Its magnitude reached 8.8 on the Richter scale, and the intensity of aftershocks in different regions of the peninsula ranged from 6 to 7 on the Richter scale.