A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck near the coast of the Kamchatka region in the far east of Russia on Sunday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said.The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.

A series of powerful earthquakes struck off the coast of Russia''s Kamchatka Peninsula on Sunday, with the strongest reaching magnitude 7.6, according to the Kamchatka branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre announced the end of a tsunami threat to Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula after five strong earthquakes, the largest at 7.4 magnitude, struck offshore. Initial tsunami warnings were downgraded as the situation stabilized.

A false-color satellite photo from 2023 shows a devilish pair of lava flows and an enormous plume of smoke spewing from Klyuchevskoy, the tallest volcano in Europe and Asia.