Tsunami alert issued after 7.5-magnitude quake hits Russia's Kamchatka coast

  21 December 2018    Read: 1348
Tsunami alert issued after 7.5-magnitude quake hits Russia

According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), a quake struck 88 km (55 miles) west-southwest of Nikol'skoye, located on Russia's Kamchatka, Sputnik reports.

The earthquake in the Russian region was confirmed Thursday by the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

According to seismologists, the earthquake struck at about 5:01 a.m. local time (17:31 PM GMT).

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) has issued a tsunami alert within a radius of some 186 miles from the epicentre.


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