Dramatic video shows brave doctors calmly continuing to perform surgery as a powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit — rocking their operating theatre in Russia.
The medics are seen clinging to the gurney to secure their patient in the incredible video shared by the regional health ministry in the Kamchatka Peninsula, on Russia’s Pacific coast.
One of the doctors leans over the patient to shield them from falling debris.”Heroes in white coats,” said Oleg Melnikov, regional minister of health in Kamchatka Krai state, as he posted the video on social media.
Doctors continue performing surgery as a the 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. ReutersAll four members of the medical crew will be presented with state awards for courage and dedication, Kamchatka Governor Vladimir Solodov said.It is not clear what type of operation the doctors were performing at the time.
The Kamchatka Peninsula was hit by one of the strongest quakes ever recorded on Wednesday, with the tremors triggering tsunami warnings as far away as Hawaii, Chile and Japan.
“It felt like the walls could collapse any moment. The shaking lasted continuously for at least three minutes,” said Yaroslav, 25, in the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
The quake — the 6th most powerful ever recorded — damaged buildings and injured several people in the region.
“Today’s earthquake was serious and the strongest in decades of tremors,” Kamchatka Governor Vladimir Solodov said in a video posted on the Telegram messaging app.
The quake was the strongest to hit the Kamchatka Peninsula, home to just under 30,000 people, since 1952.
Tsunami waves inundating Severo-Kurilsk after a powerful earthquake. Xinhua / SWNS
Rescuer surveying earthquake damage to a kindergarten building. RUSSIAN MINISTRY OF EMERGENCY SITUATIONS/AFP via Getty ImagesMuch of Japan’s eastern seaboard, which was devastated by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami in 2011, was ordered to evacuate, as were parts of Hawaii.
In Hawaii, officials braced for a tsunami warning that was later downgraded to an advisory.
There have been no reports of severe damage in the Aloha State.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said her team is monitoring the situation in Alaska, California and Hawaii.
“Please be careful be careful when returning and watch out for damage,” she wrote on X.
With Post wires
