
A powerful earthquake of magnitude 8.8 — one of the strongest ever recorded — struck Russia’s sparsely populated far eastern Kamchatka peninsula early on Wednesday, causing strong tremors and tsunamis up to four metres (12 feet) across the Pacific.
A powerful earthquake of magnitude 8.8 — one of the strongest ever recorded — struck Russia’s sparsely populated far eastern Kamchatka peninsula early on Wednesday, causing strong tremors and tsunamis up to four metres (12 feet) across the Pacific.