TSUNAMI alerts have been issued following multiple powerful earthquakes in the Pacific.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has warned of a tsunami threat to Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula following the quakes – with the strongest at magnitude 7.4.
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The largest quake hit around 89 miles east of east of the Russian city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on Saturday evening, 12 miles below the seabed.
The city, on the Kamchatka Peninsula, has a population of 180,000, and is the largest settlement endangered by the threat.
A slightly smaller earthquake of 6.7 struck just minutes earlier in a similar area, and there was a 5.0 before that.
There were fears Hawaii would also be impacted, but an island-wide tsunami warning has now been withdrawn.
Alerts were also issued for Guam and American Samoa, but those too have now been lifted.
The live alerts now apply only to parts of Russia.
The USGS warned that “hazardous tsunami waves are possible” within 300 kilometres of the epicentre in the Pacific.
There were no immediate reports of casualties following the earthquakes.
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