According to a Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky resident, the shaking continued for a few minutes.

“I decided to leave the building,” said Yaroslav, 25. “It felt like the walls could collapse any moment. The shaking lasted continuously for at least 3 minutes.”

In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a group of medical professionals were performing surgery while the tremors rocked their tools and the floor below them, according to video footage made public by the region’s health ministry.

Parts of Kamchatka were hit by tsunami waves, which swept boats off their moorings and partially flooded the port and a fish processing facility in the town of Severo-Kurilsk, according to regional officials and Russia’s emergency ministry.

The town’s entire shoreline was underwater, according to verified drone footage, and water