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Multiple travel alerts have been issued to British citizens after Russia ’s Far East was rattled by an 8.8-magnitude ...

Tsunami waves measuring up to 1.3 meters were observed off the Pacific coast of Japan, with authorities urging people in ...

Tsunami alerts have been issued for Hawaii, California and Alaska following a massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast ...

A powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake off Russia’s coast triggered a tsunami that hit Japan’s Hokkaido and the Kuril Islands, prompting warnings as far as New Zealand. Small waves have been detected, ...

Within minutes, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre was issuing alerts across the basin. Waves of up to three metres were ...

The earthquake appeared to be the strongest anywhere in the world since the March 2011 earthquake off northeast Japan that ...

A tsunami has hit coastal areas of Russia’s Kuril Islands and Japan’s large northern island of Hokkaido after a powerful, 8.8 ...

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A tsunami hit coastal areas of Russia’s Kuril Islands and Japan after a powerful, 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the ...