September 18,2025
RED FM News Desk
British Columbia’s emergency management office has confirmed there is no tsunami threat to the province following a massive earthquake off the coast of Russia on Thursday.
The 7.8-magnitude quake was recorded at 11:58 a.m. Pacific time, roughly 410 kilometres southwest of Bering Island, at a depth of about 9.6 kilometres, Emergency Management B.C. reported.
“A large earthquake has occurred in the Pacific Basin near Kamchatka, Russia,” the office stated shortly after noon.
In an update just after 1 p.m., officials reiterated, “The (U.S.) National Tsunami Warning Center has advised that no zones of coastal British Columbia are at risk from this event. Repeat, no zones of coastal British Columbia are at risk from this event.”
While B.C. faces no danger, the earthquake prompted a tsunami advisory for Alaska’s Aleutian Islands and western regions of the state, according to the U.S. National Weather Service.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said Thursday’s quake is an aftershock of an 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the Kamchatka Peninsula on July 29. “The aftershock resulted from shallow reverse faulting,” the USGS explained. “At the earthquake’s location, the Pacific Plate is moving west-northwest relative to the North American Plate.”
Thursday’s 7.8-magnitude tremor is the largest aftershock recorded since the July main earthquake, surpassing a 7.4-magnitude aftershock on Sept. 13.
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