Experto alerta: el terremoto de 8,8 en Kamchatka es el sexto mayor de la historia y genera tsunamis en todo el Pacífico

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00:00Significant earthquake happening on the Kamchatka peninsula of Russia.

00:05That's the sort of part of Russia, north of China, that extends in the Pacific Sea.

00:12The earthquake we just experienced there is 8.8 on the Richter scale.

00:17That is significant. That puts it at the sixth biggest earthquake ever recorded on Earth.

00:24So this is a substantial earthquake.

00:26Quakes occur where we get tectonic plates, normally where we get tectonic plates rubbing against each other.

00:35So you've got the big Pacific plate, you know, the Earth is made up of these sort of geology plates, these geophysical plates.

00:42And the Earth is sort of where these plates rub, where they sort of join.

00:48We get stresses building up and then every so often we get a sudden release of pressure and part of the seabed flips up.

00:55And so it's that flip that causes the tsunami.

01:02And it does put lives at risk if people don't move to high ground.

01:06And that's the key message.

01:08Once you hear the warnings, the Pacific is very good at tracking tsunamis.

01:12There's an early warning system across the entire region.

01:15Lock up your houses, lock up your shops.

01:17And just move as quick as possible in a calm way to high ground.

01:22And once you're in high ground, you are safe from these events.

01:26Landscape