{"slug": "kamchatka-peninsula", "label": "Kamchatka Peninsula", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamchatka_Peninsula", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q993", "qid": "Q993", "description": "peninsula in Eastern Russia between the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Okhotsk", "entries": 7, "years": 6, "span": [1728, 2025], "span_label": ["1728 CE", "2025 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 4}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}], "also_known_as": ["Kamchatka"], "related": [{"slug": "japan", "label": "Japan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "hawaii", "label": "Hawaii", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "april", "label": "April", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "russia", "label": "Russia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "modified-mercalli-intensity-scale", "label": "Modified Mercalli intensity scale", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "soviet-union", "label": "Soviet Union", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "vitus-bering", "label": "Vitus Bering", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bering-strait", "label": "Bering Strait", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "volcanic-eruption", "label": "Volcanic eruption", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1728, "year_label": "1728 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "July 14", "text": "July 14 – The First Kamchatka Expedition, led by Vitus Bering and his crew sail northward on the ship Archangel Gabriel from the Kamchatka Peninsula, through the Bering Strait, and round Cape Dezhnev.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363462071#July–September", "title": "1728", "revid": 1363462071, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1737, "year_label": "1737 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "October 16", "text": "October 16 – An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 9.3 occurs off the shore of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. Tsunamis up to 60 m high follow in the Pacific ocean.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367176390#October–December", "title": "1737", "revid": 1367176390, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1907, "year_label": "1907 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "March", "text": "c. March 28 – The volcano Ksudach erupts, in the Kamchatka Peninsula.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373349351#March", "title": "1907", "revid": 1373349351, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1941, "year_label": "1941 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "April", "text": "April – The Valley of Geysers is discovered on the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia, by Tatyana Ustinova.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372706275#April", "title": "1941", "revid": 1372706275, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1941, "year_label": "1941 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "April", "text": "April – The Valley of Geysers on the Kamchatka Peninsula is discovered by Tatyana Ustinova.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1345472583#Events", "title": "1941 in the Soviet Union", "revid": 1345472583, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1952, "year_label": "1952 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "November 5", "text": "November 5 – The 9.0 Mw Severo-Kurilsk earthquake hits the Kamchatka Peninsula of the Soviet Union with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). A tsunami took the lives of more than 2,300 people.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373187098#November–December", "title": "1952", "revid": 1373187098, "section": "Events › November–December"}}, {"year": 2025, "year_label": "2025 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "July 30", "text": "July 30 – An Mw 8.8 earthquake strikes off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, triggering tsunami warnings in Japan and Hawaii.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372865033#July", "title": "2025", "revid": 1372865033, "section": "Events › July"}}]}