6Kamchatka, Russia, 2025 — Magnitude 8.8

On July 30, 2025, local time, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck offshore from Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. It happened on July 29 in UTC.

The event triggered tsunami watches and warnings across the Pacific. Its addition changed familiar earthquake rankings, placing this modern disaster alongside the massive earthquakes that struck Chile and Ecuador decades earlier.

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