Prepared by: Bipika Poudyal, GRIT The Kamchatka Peninsula, located off the east coast of Russia, was struck by an 8.8-magnitude megathrust earthquake on July 29, 2025, at 23:24:52 UTC. The earthquake triggered tsunami alerts acro…
Update 04:20 UTC The tsunami watch has been cancelled for Hawaii. Update 03:35 UTC The United States Geological Survey has revised the magnitude to 7.5. The epicenter was located around 456 km far from Petropavlovsk-Kamcha…
October 19, 2019: At least 15 people have died and 13 others have been missing after a dam collapse at a gold mine in Siberia. The dam, on the Seiba river in the region of Krasnoyarsk, burst after heavy rain on Saturday. …
Hurricane damage at Alexander Golod's pyramid in Istrinsky District, Moscow (CNN) May 30, 2017: At least 16 people died and 168 others injured in a hurricane that hit Russia’s capital Moscow and the adjacent areas. &qu…
Karymsky volcano in Russia spewed ashes up to 3,000 meters prompting authorities to issue an "orange" code of warning for aviation. "Ash emissions at Karymsky volcano was recorded by satellites of Kamchatka Vo…
Recent flash floods in Russia's Olympic city of Sochi have claimed life of a person. Flooding triggered by heavy downpour damaged the Formula One race track at Adler.
A mysterious giant sink has appeared in Siberia's Novokuznetsk Region measuring 20 meters in diameter and up to 30 meters in depth. The mysterious sinkhole was first spotted by Rinat Sharifullin, a local man whose house i…
A code of high threat to air traffic has been enforced in Kamchatka in Russian following eruptions at Kluchevsky and Zhupanovsky volcanoes. Both Kamchatka volcanoes spewed volcanic ashes simultaneously nearly five kilometer…
A Shiveluch volcano eruption in Russia led to the cancellation of flights in Alaska over the weekend. "We canceled two roundtrip flights between Anchorage and Bethel, and Anchorage and Nome after an advisory of low vis…
At least 52 fishermen have gone missing after a South Korean vessel sank in the stormy Bering Sea. The Oryong 501 vessel owned by the South Korean fisheries firm Sajo Industries was carrying 35 Indonesians, 13 Philippine na…
A state of emergency has been declared due to the devastating floods in the southern part of Siberia. Over 7,600 people have been evacuated from the dangerous areas, The Voice of Russia reported quoting Russian Emergency Situa…
Tsunami is predicted to hit Russia’s Far East this year, Ria Novosti reported quoting the Emergencies Ministry. Major earthquake is expected to hit off the southwestern coast of Sakhalin Island creating the Tsunami. Russia&#…
Shiveluch volcano eruption in Russia has spewed ash to a height of 6.2 km above sea level, The Voice of Russia reported quoting the Emergency Situations' Ministry department for Kamchatka territory. Shiveluch has been assi…
The Shiveluch volcano in Kamchatka has spewed ash nine kilometers high in the sky, the Kamchatkan territorial emergency situations department said. No ash fall has been reported from towns nearby. According to disaster managem…
Mudslide in southern Russia has claimed lives of at least seven people, Emergency Situations Department said today. Heavy rainfall triggered mudslide in Derbent, a city in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan. Around 300 ho…
Karymsky volcano in Russia has spewed ash to a height of 4 miles into the sky early Tuesday, local emergencies services said. The current Karymsky eruption poses no immediate threat to nearby settlements. However the clouds of…
Shiveluch Volcano in Russia spewed ash up to a height of 5 km, Emergencies Ministry Department said today. The current Shiveluch eruption poses no immediate threat to nearby settlements. However the clouds of volcanic ash co…
The Shiveluch volcano in Russia has spewed ash to a height of up to 7,000 meters, RIA Novosti reported quoting local Emergencies Ministry’s department. Local firefighters and rescuers have send text messages warning people to …
Kamchatkan volcano Shiveluch has emitted column of hot volcanic ash and gas upto 9 km above the sea level, the Kamchatkan branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Geophysical Service reported. A code orange alert has bee…