A powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake triggered a series of tsunami warnings and evacuation orders stretching across Japan, the US west coast and parts of the Pacific, after the shallow quake hit near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday, with reports of waves up to four metres high in the remote region.
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The earthquake, one of the strongest ever recorded, struck at a depth of 19.3km (12 miles) and was centred 126km (80 miles) south-east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a city along Russia’s Avacha Bay, the US Geological Survey said

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