As reported by Reuters, the depth of this morning‘s massive tremor, the second in two months to hit the Kamtsatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, prevented the creation of a tsunami.
The quake was measured by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre of the US National Meteorology Service, based in Hawaii, at 7.4 on the Richter scale, at a depth of 39,5 kilometre.
The German Geoscience Centre had earlier reported a 7,1 much more shallow quake, at 10 kilometres, warning of a tsunami.
In Japan, southwest of the Kamtsatka peninsula, no such warning was issued, according to the NHK national network, citing the Meteorological Service.
The area remained on alert.
