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Hopefully this redirects Russian troops towards the area.
My guess is that that probably won't be a huge deal. This is the Pacific Rim, and if you're on that, you'll build for earthquakes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_fire
Pacific Rim countries can maybe get clobbered by an exceptionally large earthquake, the way Japan did in 2011:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami
Or Chile in 1960:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_Valdivia_earthquake
But those earthquakes were, respectively, at least 63 times as strong and 158 times as strong as this Russian earthquake.
Damn....tsunami waves 133 ft high going 435 mph. That is absolutely wild.
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/tohoku-earthquake-and-tsunami/