The magnitude of the earthquake in the area of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky was at least 6.0, the press service said.
After the earthquake in Kamchatka, a strong aftershok process is fixed, there will be aftershoki within a month, including magnitude up to 7.5, the report said.
According to the Russian propaganda agency “RIA-News”, the threat of Tsunami was declared in Kamchatka, in all the Kuril Islands, as well as almost the entire eastern coast of Japan, in Alaska and in the American states of California and Oregon.
The first wave of the tsunami has already covered the coastal zone of North Kurilsk, in some places it flooded the settlement and a fishing enterprise, notes the media.
The Governor of Kamchatka Vladimir Solodov said that as a result of the earthquake, the building of one of the kindergartens fell upon the earthquake, there were no injured.
The first wave of the tsunami was fixed in the coastal zone of North Kurilsk, said the governor of the Sakhalin Region Valery Limarenko.
The Minister of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation Sergey Lebedev noted that in some areas Kamchatka recorded a tsunami three to four meters high, writes RIA Novosti.
The Alaid plant went under water in Sever-Kurilsk, wrote the TELEGRAM channel Shot. All employees were evacuated from the enterprise.
The tremors from a powerful earthquake were felt in 47 settlements of the Kamchatka Territory and Sakhalin, RIA-News was told in emergency services.
The US authorities announced a warning about the tsunami in Alaska and Hawaii, reported three -meter waves, writes BBC.
According to the Pacific warning center about the US Tsunami, which is based in Honolulu, the waves can threaten the American island of Guam.
The Department of Emergency Situations Honolulu called for some coastal areas to evacuate, saying that the destructive waves of the tsunami were expected.
Also, the Japanese meteorological agency warned that the waves of tsunami up to three meters high have reached large coastal regions. The Japanese government issued an order to evacuate people on the Pacific coast.
The waves of the tsunami after the earthquake in Kamchatka affected the coast of the American state of Hawaii, the US weather service said, writes CBS News.
