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A powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on July 30, 2025, triggering global tsunami alerts.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian authorities have cancelled tsunami alerts for the Kamchatka Peninsula, Sakhalin Island and the town ...
The 8.8 magnitude megaquake is the joint-sixth largest earthquake ever recorded and the first tsunami waves have already hit ...
Geologists unpack why the magnitude 8.8 temblor — the sixth largest ever recorded — fomented waves that reached Japan and Hawaii but caused little damage.
University of Washington Professor Harold Tobin was monitoring the earthquake and tsunami impacts with the Pacific Northwest ...
The shallow tremor off the Kamchatka Peninsula damaged buildings and injured several people in the remote Russian region, while much of Japan's eastern seaboard − devastated by a 9.0 magnitude ...
Here's what we know about what caused the earthquake off Russia's Far East and why the tsunami it generated weren't as big as ...
A magnitude-8.7 earthquake in Russia’s Far East early Wednesday prompted tsunami warnings in parts of Japan, Alaska and ...