{"id":70342,"date":"2025-08-03T01:45:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T01:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=70342"},"modified":"2025-08-03T01:45:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T01:45:51","slug":"powerful-8-8-magnitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=70342","title":{"rendered":"Powerful 8.8 magnitude"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"441\" height=\"386\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-52.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-52.png 441w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-52-300x263.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Kamchatka on July 30, 2025, making it the strongest in the region since 1952.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Initially measured at 8.0, it was later upgraded by the USGS. The quake\u2019s epicenter was 119\u2013136 km east-southeast<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky at a depth of ~20 km, along the Kuril\u2013Kamchatka arc\u2014part of the Pacific Ring of Fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tsunamis up to 4\u202fm hit Severo-Kurilsk, flooding coastal areas and forcing 2,000 evacuations. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>experienced shaking, minor injuries, power outages, and the collapse of a kindergarten wall. Sakhalin Island also issued evacuations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tsunami warnings extended across the Pacific. In Japan, up to 1.9 million evacuated, and waves up to 50 cm reached Hokkaido.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fukushima nuclear plant safely evacuated staff. Hawaii saw 4-ft waves; Alaska and the U.S. West Coast issued<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>advisories, with small waves observed and forecasts predicting up to 1.7\u202fm in places like Crescent City, California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chile, Peru, Mexico, Taiwan, and other Pacific nations issued alerts, though minimal wave impacts were reported. India activated emergency support lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Powerful aftershocks (M6.9, M6.3) struck the region, with more expected. The quake is among the top ten strongest ever recorded globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=70313\">ALSO READ&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Kamchatka on July 30, 2025, making it the strongest in the region since 1952. Initially measured at&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70344,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70342\/revisions\/70344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}