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Graig Graziosi,Maroosha Muzaffar and Tara Cobham

Massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake prompts evacuations and tsunami warnings across Hawaii, California and Japan

Hawaii Alaska Russia

One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded rocked Russia's remote far-eastern coast on Wednesday, sending tsunami waves towards Japan, Hawaii and the west coast of the US and triggering evacuation orders for millions of people.

The 8.8-magnitude quake, the sixth-strongest on record, was later followed by the eruption of a volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula, near the epicentre.

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