PHIVOLCS: No Tsunami threat following Kamchatka, Russia quake

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) declared that the country faces no tsunami threat following the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck Kamchatka, Russia on Friday morning.

“No destructive tsunami threat exists based on available data… There is no tsunami threat to the Philippines from this earthquake,” PHIVOLCS said.

At 11:36 a.m., a quake with a depth of 148 kilometers hit the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, located between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean, according to Britannica.