Powerful Quake in Russia's Far East Causes Tsunami, Hawaii Orders Evacuations

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A magnitude 8.7 earthquake struck off Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday, generating a tsunami of up to 4 metres, damaging buildings and prompting evacuation warnings in the area and across most of Japan’s east coast, officials said.

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