After the tsunami wave... video of the moment a Russian town was flooded with water.
Arabian Sea Newspaper - Special
((Arab Sea)) Agencies: Russian media published, on Wednesday, footage of a tsunami hitting a coastal town in the far east of Russia, sweeping buildings and debris into the sea. An earthquake of magnitude 8.8 struck off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the far east of Russia earlier, leading to evacuations and tsunami warnings in parts of the Pacific coast, but authorities in the peninsula later announced the lifting of the tsunami warning. In the Russian town of Severo-Kurilsk, which has about two thousand inhabitants and is located about 350 kilometers southwest of the epicenter, tsunami waves hit the port area and flooded a local fish factory, according to authorities. The town is located in Paramushir, one of the Kuril Islands south of the Kamchatka Peninsula. A video posted on Russian social media showed buildings submerged in seawater in the town. Authorities said the town's population of about 2,000 people had been evacuated. According to Mayor Alexander Ovsyannikov, waves, some of which reached four meters high, reached the World War II memorial in the town, which is about 400 meters from the coast. He explained that most parts of the town are located on high ground, safe from flooding. "Everyone has been evacuated. There was enough time, a full hour. Everyone has been evacuated. All people are in a tsunami-safe area," he said at a crisis meeting with officials earlier. The Kremlin stated that "all warning systems" worked well. "We thank God that there were no casualties," its spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. An expedition from the "Russian Geographical Society" on the neighboring island of Shumshu was present when the tsunami swept away their camp. Vera Kostamo, who was part of the expedition, told the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda": "When the wave hit, all we could do was run towards a higher area. It is difficult to do this while wearing heavy shoes on slippery grass and in the fog." https://twitter.com/MoscowTimes/status/1950434590880837816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1950434590880837816%7Ctwgr%5Ebafa0e329a53a59e004b30cfba35f716bc0664f4%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.skynewsarabia.com%2Fworld%2F1811378-D985D988D8ACD8A9-D8AAD8B3D988D986D8A7D985D98A-D981D98AD8AFD98AD988-D98AD8B1D8B5D8AF-D8A8D984D8AFD8A9-D8B1D988D8B3D98AD8A9-D8AAD8BAD985D8B1D987D8A7-D8A7D984D985D98AD8A7D987 She added, "The wave swept away all the tents and buildings, and our belongings were scattered on the beach for hundreds of meters." She continued: "There are no casualties among us, everyone moved quickly, but we lost all our belongings." Authorities in the Sakhalin region, which includes the northern Kuril Islands, declared a state of emergency. The regional earthquake monitoring service reported that the earthquake was the strongest in the region since 1952, expecting "aftershocks of up to 7.5 degrees."
