[1] It had an epicenter in the Sea of Okhotsk and affected primarily (but not only) Asian Russia, especially the Kamchatka Peninsula where the shaking lasted for five minutes.

[7] Maximum recorded JMA intensity was Shindo 3 (equivalent to IV (Light) on the MMI Scale).

It was an extremely deep (640 km or 400 mi) supershear as well as unusually fast at "eight kilometers per second (five miles per second), nearly 50 percent faster than the shear wave velocity at that depth".

[7] In Samara, a poorly constructed house collapsed and seventeen others were slightly damaged, despite the shaking being so weak there.

[7] In Saint Petersburg, one person had to be medically cared for in an office block due to nausea caused by the swaying building.