No tsunami alert after 6.8-magnitude Sea of Okhotsk quake – Phivolcs

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake hits the Sea of Okhotsk on Saturday morning, August 10, 2024. But the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said it is not raising any tsunami warning for the Philippines following the temblor. (Photo from Phivolcs)

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) did not raise a tsunami warning for the country following the 6.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the Sea of Okhotsk on Saturday morning,

“There is no tsunami threat to the Philippines from this earthquake,” it said in a bulletin.

A 6.8 magnitude earthquake rocked the Sea of Okhotsk at 11:28 a.m., August 10. The quake had a depth of 489 kilometers.

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The Sea of Okhotsk is a marginal sea located in the northwestern portion of the Pacific Ocean. According to the World Atlas website, the Sea of Okhotsk “is surrounded by the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia in the east; by the Kuril Islands in the southeast; Japan’s Hokkaido island in the south-southwest; Sakhalin Island (Russia) in the southwest; and by the east coast of Russia in the north and west.”

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It also said that: “On either side of Sakhalin Island, the Sea of Okhotsk is connected with the Sea of Japan via the La Pérouse Strait in the south and via the Gulf of Tartary and the Sakhalin Gulf in the west.”

On August 8, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake rattled Kyushu, Japan. According to the United States Geological Survey, the 6.9-magnitude quake was followed by a 7.1 tremor.

Phivolcs also did not issue a tsunami alert in the Philippines after Thursday’s megaquake in Japan.