Elizaveta, a Kamchatka resident, told socialbites.ca that “furniture rattled” in her apartment during the earthquake that struck the peninsula on Monday. According to him, the warning system did not work and people began to panic.
“Like many residents, I felt the earthquake well. Many buildings in Petropavlovsk were cracked and plastered. Somewhere the ceiling began to collapse. People began to panic very strongly. But the worst thing is that the notification system doesn’t work at all. At the time of the incident, I was talking on the phone at home and I heard the hum of the windows. It was impossible to get out immediately during the earthquake. I hid in the bathroom. He was shaking slightly at first but everything changed dramatically. Furniture started to shake. After a few minutes everything stopped. After that, I immediately prepared an emergency suitcase,” he said.
Another local resident, Ekaterina, emphasized in an interview with socialbites.ca that many people from her house “run to the street as they are.” She said that earthquakes that sometimes occur in Kamchatka are “impossible to get used to” and that’s why she’s scared.
“The first edition took place on 15.07. My husband and I were in the kitchen at the time. The dishes shook. Everything unscrewed in the house shook, the chandelier shook, the cabinet doors opened, the water in the cat’s bowl splashed on the floor. But thankfully nothing broke or fell off. We stood in a safe place in the apartment and waited for everything to calm down. Most of our house is out on the street as they are. We decided that running to the entrance would be even more dangerous. To my feelings, it was two shocks. The first is weaker, immediately the second is stronger. Are we scared? Yes. It’s impossible to get used to it,” he added.
As before reported At the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Kamchatka Region, a 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck the region on Monday afternoon. Its epicenter was located at a depth of about 100 kilometers in Avacha Bay, 44 kilometers south of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The tsunami threat was not disclosed.