Has anyone heard how bad it was in Petropovlosk? USGS estimates "severe" shaking with the possibility of moderate to heavy damage and a chance of fatalities.

They have had quite a swarm of quakes there over the last couple of weeks, including one that was M7+ around the 20th.

From what I see in Russian-language news, only relatively minor damage. I've lived in Petropavlovsk, it's an ugly city in various states of disrepair, but they do take seismic reinforcements seriously, like mag 7 should cause zero damage according to plan.

It's basically immune to tsunamis as it's protected by a bay with narrow entrance that extinguishes the waves, also most of the city is raised at least 10m above the sea.

Severo-Kurilsk, an island town destroyed by a similar tsunami in 1956, lost its port again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severo-Kurilsk — the rest of the settlement was rebuilt on higher ground, leaving only the port vulnerable.

The settlement is notable as having belonged to the Japanese in late 19th and early 20th centuries, who once relocated islanders there. Russian Wikipedia says they were Ainu.

So far the news here has only shown damage to a school (which apparently was empty due to repair work), and some bad flooding in one part. Let’s hope for the best.

It's a very remote, very thinly populated area. The entire Kamchatka peninsula has under 300,000 people, who (statistically) have 1 km2 each.

Current official news:

Around 3k were evacuated in the region to safe areas as a precaution: aftershocks are expected for a month.

Some buildings (including hospitals) have cracks due to an earthquake.

Some minor damage to power lines, some near-shore flooding at some businesses.

All in all, it’s ok.

On Twitter, a search for Russia brings up some videos of pretty severe shaking

Officials report M5-6 in the area, minor damage, several injuries, tell locals not to go to the beach in the next few weeks. They are used to it…