A magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday (July 30), generating a tsunami of up to 4 meters (13 feet), damaging buildings and prompting evacuation warnings in the area, officials said. Eyewitness footage showed the moment the earthquake struck, with the eyewitness seen taking their belongings and evacuating the building towards their car. The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake was shallow at a depth of 19.3 km (12 miles), and was centred 126 km (80 miles) east-southeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a city of 165,000 along the coast of Avacha Bay. It revised the magnitude up from 8.0 earlier.
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