Limited impact of the 2025 Kamchatka tsunami explained by the complex seismic rupture
The great 29th of July 2025 megathrust earthquake of magnitude 8.8, which occurred near the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, generated a local tsunami comparable to that of its larger 1952 predecessor, which, in contrast, caused a larger tsunami along the far-field Pacific shorelines. The 2025 tsunami was also smaller than...