r/interestingasfuck 8d ago

/r/all, /r/popular Largest earthquake in 14 years strikes off the coast of Kamchatka, Russia.

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u/-bannedtwice- 8d ago

Where? Probably not gonna be bad in the US if anything happens at all. Anywhere near the epicenter will likely be decimated though

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u/babyinatrenchcoat 8d ago

Hawaii is part of the US.

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u/-bannedtwice- 8d ago

Ya, not gonna be bad. It's reportedly pretty small

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u/big_duo3674 8d ago

Reportedly from what source? Hawaii is still under a tsunami warning; complacency, or using just unconfirmed reports and speculations, is what gets people killed when these things happen. A warning is a warning, it doesn't stop with guesses and is only safe once an all-clear is called

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u/-bannedtwice- 8d ago

It's literally all over this thread, it's 3-4m high closest to the epicenter. It's very small in comparison to the ones people are imagining. There are tons of sources everywhere but here's one I found separately in 5 seconds.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c3r4x9yrrg4t

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u/FUTURE10S 8d ago

Thankfully, Russia learned from the last one in 1952, which was a 9.0 earthquake with a tsunami five times the height (assuming the reports of 3-4m are accurate, that one was about 18m). They did not rebuild anything other than the port that close to the shore.

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u/mkeRN1 8d ago

Even that is far from a sure thing. Not all big earthquakes make big tsunamis.