Kamchatsky Peninsula lies within a complex meeting place of tectonic plates, in particular, the orthogonal interaction of the west-moving Komandorsky Island block with mainland Kamchatka. Examining the Holocene history of ...

The Bering Sea coast of Kamchatka overlies a boundary between the proposed Okhotsk and Bering blocks, or (micro)plates, of the North American plate in the Russian Far East. A history of tsunamis along this coast for the ...