"At The Sound Of Sirens, The Aluminstroy Plant Went Underwater."

New details about the earthquake and tsunami in Kamchatka.

In Kamchatka a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 8.5 has occurred, which triggered a tsunami. The Yelizovsky district was hit: waves 3-4 meters high were recorded.

According to Russian media, the first tremors were recorded around 11:30 local time. Panic gripped local residents - people ran out into the streets. This is reported by Dialog.UA.

In one of the educational institutions English Lyceum walls began to crack. All employees of the institution managed to evacuate. According to one of the teachers, in more than 50 years of living in Kamchatka, she had never experienced anything like it: "The ground was shaking and the building was shaking with the windows."

In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a wall in a kindergarten collapsed during the earthquake.

A tsunami alert was issued for all of the Kuril Islands. Soon the first wave hit the coast of Severo-Kurilsk.

At the background of sounding sirens, an industrial enterprise, the Aluminstroy plant, went underwater. At Cape Vodopadny, the wave height was also about 3-4 meters.

Warnings about a possible tsunami were issued in the United States for Hawaii, California and Alaska. Kamchatka Territory Governor Vladimir Solodov announced a shortened workday for employees of government agencies due to the threat. Later, the tsunami reached Sakhalin. The head of the region Valery Lymarenko reported the evacuation of the population.

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