Quake of 8.8 magnitude hit near Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula and reportedly caused waves up to 4 metres high
Quake of 8.8 magnitude hit near Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula and reportedly caused waves up to 4 metres high
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A series of tsunami warnings and evacuation orders were triggered stretching across Japan, the US west coast and much of the Pacific on Wednesday after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded hit off eastern Russia, where there were reports of waves up to 4 metres high in some remote regions.
The 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck at a depth of 12 miles (19.3km) and was centred 78 miles (126km) south-east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a city in Russia’s Avacha Bay, the US Geological Survey said.
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