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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Athena Stavrou

Tsunami threat over after two large earthquakes strike off coast of Russia

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has retracted a tsunami warning for Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula after two quakes struck in the sea nearby on Sunday.

The larger quake with a magnitude of 7.4 was at a depth of 12 miles and was 89 miles east of the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, which has a population of 180,000.

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