An 8.8-magnitude earthquake, that struck 119 km from the Russian city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on Wednesday, did not have any effect on the Russian capital of Moscow which lies about 6,800 km from the epicentre. Moscow is far from any active tectonic plate boundaries. The Russian capital sits on the stable East European Platform, which doesn't experience the same tectonic pressures.
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Daisy Mowke /
11:07 pm on
30 Jul