Magnitude 7.8 quake hits off Russia’s Kamchatka -USGS

Undated: A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7 8 off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula triggered a tsunami warning but the threat has now passed, the US Geological Survey and US Pacific Tsunami Center said.

The quake struck at 11:34 a.m.
Today (1700 IST on Monday) some 125 miles (200 km) from the city of Nikolskoye on Bering island off the Kamchatka Peninsula.
The epicenter was west of Attu, the westernmost and largest island in the Near Islands group of Alaska’s remote Aleutian Islands.  (Agencies)

 

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