Fifteen minutes. That was the margin between a titanic 8.8 magnitude earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula and the five-meter tsunami crash at Rybachiy, the country’s main nuclear submarine port.

This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission. A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake

One section of the pier appears to have broken away from its anchor point. Aside from the damaged pier, the satellite imagery does not show any other major destruction. Reuters could not independently verify the report.