A powerful earthquake has struck Russia’s Far East, triggering tsunami warnings across the Pacific region from Japan to the US and raising concerns of possible aftershocks.
The earthquake, with an epicentre off the eastern coast of Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula about 120km from the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, was of 8.8 magnitude, according to the US Geological Service.
It was the strongest since the 9.1-magnitude Tohoku earthquake in 2011 that triggered a massive tsunami and disaster at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant.
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