STORY: :: July 30, 2025
:: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
:: Sergei Lebedev via VK
:: This video shows the damage to a kindergarten in Russia’s Far East after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake
:: Lebedev Sergey Vladimirovich, Minister of Emergency Situations, Kamchatka Krai
“At Kindergarten Number 15 there was a collapse of the building facade. But thank God, no one was injured, there were no children (in the building) but there is damage (to the building).”
:: In another social media video, people are seen escaping a building as the quake hit
:: Instagram @iaemak.k
In footage posted on social media, Kamchatka Krai’s Minister of Emergency Situations, Sergei Lebedev, said on-camera that no children were inside the building, and no injuries were reported.
Reuters was able to confirm the location of the video from the building, road layout, and building exteriors seen in the video which matched file and satellite imagery. Reuters was able to confirm the date of the videos from the corroborating local reports and official statements.
In other footage posted on social media, clips show the moment the earthquake struck, with the eyewitness seen taking their belongings and evacuating the building towards their car.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake was shallow at a depth of 19.3 km (12 miles), and was centred 126 km (80 miles) east-southeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a city of 165,000 along the coast of Avacha Bay. It revised the magnitude up from 8.0 earlier.
Kamchatka and Russia’s Far East sit on the Pacific Ring of Fire, a geologically active region that is prone to major earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
