At 11:24 am local time on July 30, 2025, a powerful earthquake struck offshore of the Kamchatka Peninsula, triggering a tsunami in the Pacific Ocean.

The intensity of the earthquake that occurred off the coast of the Kamchatka peninsula was 4 points, the magnitude was 6.8, according to a preliminary estimate, the Kamchatka branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported. The epicenter was located 279 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky at a depth of 25.9 km.