In maps, visuals: Collision of Earth plates behind Pacific quake, tsunami
A magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a coastal city in Russia’s Far East, at 11:24 pm Indian time on July 29. The earthquake area falls in the Kuril-Kamchatka subduction zone where the Pacific Plate dives beneath the North America Plate.
A magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a coastal city in Russia’s Far East, at 11:24 pm Indian time on July 29. The earthquake area falls in the Kuril-Kamchatka subduction zone where the Pacific Plate dives beneath the North America Plate.
