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Mystery surrounds state of Russian nuclear sub base after major earthquake

By staff31 July 2025No Comments3 Mins Read

The quake rocked Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula – just 75 miles from a cluster of key Russian naval bases known to store Borei and Delta-class ballistic missile submarines

A tsunami in the Yelizovsky District of Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula. A tsunami wave 3 to 4 meters high was observed in the Yelizovsky District of Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday (July 30), following a magnitude 8.7 earthquake, local authorities reported. Footage shows the moment tsunami waves reached the town of Severo-Kurilsk in in the Yelizovsky District. The earthquake, the strongest in the region since 1952, was recorded earlier that day by the Kamchatka branch of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), which measured the quake at magnitude 8.8, said it struck at a depth of 19.3 km, about 126 km east-southeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a city of 165,000 on the coast of Avacha Bay.
Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula was rocked by a mammoth quake (Image: Xinhua / SWNS)

Questions are mounting over the state of a Russian nuclear base located alarmingly close to the epicentre of an 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the far east on Wednesday.

The quake rocked Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula – just 75 miles from a cluster of key Russian naval bases known to store Borei and Delta-class ballistic missile submarines. It comes after Putin warns of nuclear war after unleashing another night of hell on Ukraine

Questions are now swirling about any damage that the Rybachiy submarine base may have suffered, although Russian authorities insist the situation is under control. Wednesday’s earthquake is tied for the sixth strongest in history, according to data from the US Geological Survey.

Map shows distance between earthquake epicentre and Russian naval bases
The quake epicentre is just 75 miles from key Russian naval bases(Image: U.S. Navy )

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It sent tsunami waves into Japan, Hawaii and the US West Coast, with waves of up to four metres high recorded in Kamchatka – and “a descent of burning hot lava” sent flowing down the Klyuchevskoy volcano, which erupted just hours after the quake hit.

Posting to X, one retired Russian Navy officer suggested the nuclear base in Russia’s far east would have been built to endure such force. Capt_Navy wrote: “I have no information that critical damage to the Russian Navy’s naval bases in Kamchatka. I think everything is within the normal range. These bases were designed and built with the possibility of a nuclear attack by the enemy in mind.”

The submarine base is known to house most of Russia’s modern Borei and Borei-A class nuclear ballistic missile submarines, as well as the older Delta III-class Ryazan (K-44).

This pool photograph distributed by Russian state agency Sputnik shows the new Krasnoyarsk nuclear submarine during a flag-rising ceremony led by Russia's President at the Arctic port of Severodvinsk on December 11, 2023. (Photo by Kirill IODAS / POOL / AFP) (Photo by KIRILL IODAS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
The naval bases are known to hold ballistic missile submarines(Image: POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

While there has been no reports of destruction at the site, several buildings in Kamchatka suffered extensive damage as a result of the earthquake, which also saw ports and roads ripped apart. In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, another key naval hub, a kindergarten collapsed and several people were injured, Russian officials said.

Oleg Melnikov, the regional health minister, explained: “Unfortunately, there are some people injured during the seismic event. Some were hurt while running outside, and one patient jumped out of a window. A woman was also injured inside the new airport terminal.”

Yesterday, the Foreign Office updated its travel guidance for 15 countries, warning Brits in affected regions to evacuate and relocate to higher ground. “If you are in the affected areas potentially affected by the earthquake or tsunami you should follow the advice of the local authorities,” it added.

Russian authorities have declared the tsunami threat to be over, but have warned about the risks still posed by aftershocks.

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