M 8 Earthquake and Tsunami (2.7 m) in Russia from 29 Jul 2025 23:24 UTC to 23:24

Hazard models

Rapid Impact
Shakemap
Tsunami

Event summary

This earthquake is expected to have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

Earthquake Magnitude: 8.0M
Depth: 19.3 Km
Lat/Lon: 52.4732 , 160.396
Event Date: 29 Jul 2025 23:24 UTC
30 Jul 2025 10:24 Local
Exposed Population: 2 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Source: NEIC us6000qw60
Inserted at: 29 Jul 2025 23:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score: 1.1 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 1.8 1.8
us6000qw60 Scaled population (raster) 0.95 Max wave alert 2.72m  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59 Max wave realtime 2.72m  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0.94      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.

The green area correspond to areas affected by strong shaking (MMI VI or higher) according to the simulation.


Episode Timeline

IDLevelScoreDateMag, DepthMMI*Population**Tsunami risk***Delay (hh:mm)Source
1651234 1.5 29 Jul 2025 23:24 8M, 73.9km 7.15 250 thousand (in MMI>=VII) 1.7m (at 01:48) 00:09 PTWC
1651237 1.5 29 Jul 2025 23:24 8M, 74km 7.08 250 thousand (in MMI>=VII) 1.4m (at 00:39) 00:11 NTWC
1651240 0 29 Jul 2025 23:24 8M, 19.3km 6.49 N/A (in MMI>=VII) 2.7m (at 00:54) 00:20 NEIC
1651252 1.3 29 Jul 2025 23:24 8.7M, 18.2km 6.92 110 thousand (in MMI>=VII) 6.1m (at 01:31) 00:59 NEIC
1651280 1.3 29 Jul 2025 23:24 8.8M, 20.7km 6.9 190 thousand (in MMI>=VII) 7.3m (at 01:36) 02:08 NEIC
1652680 1.1 29 Jul 2025 23:24 8.8M, 35km 6.7 880 (in MMI>=VII) 9.9m (at 01:43) 3d 22:11 NEIC
The episode that generated the alert; the next major evaluations beyond 12 hours will not trigger additional alerts.
The episode that has the last updated information.
* The max MMI detected for sources having shakemaps;
** The population detected in MMI>=7 for episode with shakemap or in a 100km radius;
*** The tsunami max height.

Rapid Impact

The results presented below are calculated with the ShakeMap open source software (USGS) using only earthquake hypocenter information to provide a rapid estimation of the ground motion and shaking intensity without taking into account any instrumental observations or earthquake source scaling laws.

Exposed population

The earthquake happened in Russian Federation ,of Kamchatskaya oblast'. The alertlevel for this event is GREEN

Intensity Population
220000 people
42000 people

Affected Provinces

Intensity Region Province Country Population
Kamchatskaya oblast' Russian Federation <1000 people
Kamchatskaya oblast' Russian Federation 220000 people

Affected populated places. Areas of interest

Intensity Name Region Province Country City class Population Distance
Boza Kamchatskaya Russia Village - 84 km
Ostrovnaya Kamchatskaya Russia Village - 102 km
Ostrovnoye Kamchatskaya Russia Village - 103 km
Nalacheva Kamchatskaya Russia Village - 106 km
Ust-Kotelnoye Kamchatskaya Russia Village - 113 km
Vilyuy Kamchatskaya Russia Village - 129 km
Mokhovaya Rybachiy Kamchatskaya Russia Village - 134 km
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy Kamchatskaya Russia Major city 180000 people 135 km
Zhupanovo Kamchatskaya Russia Village - 136 km
Novyy Kamchatskaya Russia Village - 148 km
Nikolayevka Kamchatskaya Russia Village - 152 km
Zaychik Kamchatskaya Russia Village - 153 km
Paratunka Kamchatskaya Russia Village - 153 km

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Critical infrastructure

Airports, ports, nuclear plants and hydrodams at risk, if affected, are listed below.

Airports

Intensity Name IATA Code Elevation (m) Usage Runway type IFR Runway Length (ft) Distance
Ozero Khalaktyrka 38 0 128 km
Petropavlovsk-Kamchats PKC 84 Civ. Paved Yes 11100 152 km

Ports

Intensity Name LOCODE Country Distance
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Russia 133 km
Novaya Tarya Russia 135 km

More information

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