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Russia’s ‘land of fire and ice’ was largely spared by the nearby earthquake and tsunami

One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded hit Russia’s Far East, flooding a fishing port with waves from a tsunami, ...

Video shows Russian surgeons protecting patient mid-earthquake

Medical professionals were performing surgery on a cancer patient at the Kamchatka oncology center in ...

Tsunami risk appears to pass for U.S. after massive Russian earthquake; South American countries issue new warnings

A tsunami warning issued for Hawaii after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded, an 8.8 magnitude in Russia's Far ...

Kamchatka earthquake is among top 10 strongest ever recorded. Here's what they have in common

Today at about 11:30am local time, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula in the ...

In Kamchatka, Epicenter of the Russian Earthquake, Seismic Activity Is Common

Tremors are regularly reported in this remote Russian peninsula dotted with volcanoes, some of which erupt every year.

Fact Check: Video Showing Five Stranded Beluga Whales Was NOT Filmed Just Before 2025 Kamchatka Earthquake

Does a video show five beluga whales that washed ashore in Kamchatka, Russia on July 29, 2025, the day of an 8.8 magnitude ...

Klyuchevskoy volcano in Russia's far east starts erupting after earthquake

The Klyuchevskoy volcano on Russia's Kamchatka peninsula began erupting after Wednesday's powerful earthquake in the Pacific, ...

Why some underwater earthquakes cause tsunamis—and others, just little ripples

After a massive earthquake off the coast of Kamchatka, a peninsula in the far east of Russia, on July 30, 2025, the world ...