Massive 8.8‑Magnitude Earthquake Near Kamchatka Triggers Tsunami Alerts Across the Pacific Petropavlovsk‑Kamchatsky, Russia – A powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula at a shallow depth of approximately 19 km, located about 120–126 km southeast of Petropavlovsk‑Kamchatsky. The seismic event—one of the strongest recorded in the region since 1952—prompted tsunami alerts across the Pacific, including Japan, the U.S. West Coast, Hawaii, Alaska,