It was one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded, but so far it has not brought the devastating tsunami that many were afraid of. When the 8.8 -magnitude earthquake hit eastern Russia at 23:25 local time on Wednesday, it raised concerns about coastal populations across the Pacific. Millions of people have been removed after returning memories of the 2004 devastating tsunami of 2004 in the Indian Ocean and Japan in 2011, caused by similar major earthquakes. But yesterday’s tsunami was much less serious, though it caused some damage. So what caused the earthquake and the tsunami and why weren’t things as bad as we initially scared? What is causing a mesalism? The Kamchatka peninsula is remote, but is located in the “Ring of Pacific Fire”, named because of the large number of earthquakes and volcanoes that occur there, the British BBC explains. The upper layers of the Earth are divided into tectonic plates. The ‘Ring of Pacific Fire’ is […]
Source: News Beast
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