Images suggest the Rybachiy location was hit after the 8.8 magnitude offshore earthquake centered roughly 75 miles from the base

An 8.8 magnitude earthquake that rattled Russia’s eastern coast this week sent waves crashing into one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most prized military installations, his Pacific Fleet’s nuclear submarine base,

Russia’s far east nuclear submarine base appears to have been damaged by the tsunami that swept the country’s Pacific coast on Wednesday, according to satellite imagery obtained by The Telegraph.

One of this century’s most powerful earthquakes struck off the coast of Russia and generated tsunami warnings and advisories for a broad section of the Pacific, including Alaska, Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast and as far south as New Zealand.

The earthquake near the east coast of the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia on 30 July 2025 generated tsunami waves that have reached Hawaii and coastal areas of the US mainland.

When a magnitude 8.8 earthquake rocked Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on Tuesday, officials warned that damaging tsunami waves could follow. Instead, the waves that reached Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast proved smaller than initially feared.

An 8.8 magnitude earthquake - one of the strongest ever recorded - struck in the Pacific Ocean off Russia's far east coast.