The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has issued a warning for Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula after two quakes \u2014 the larger with a magnitude of 7.4 \u2014 struck in nearby waters on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The larger quake was at a depth of 20 kilometres and was 144 kilometres east of the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, which has a population of 180,000.<\/p>\n
A few minutes earlier, a quake with a magnitude of 6.7 was also recorded nearby.<\/p>\n
An earlier tsunami warning for Hawaii has been cancelled.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) indicated twin earthquakes of more than magnitude-6.5 struck near the coast of Kamchatka, in Russia’s far east, early on Sunday.<\/p>\n
It measured the quakes at 6.6 and 6.7 and the depth of both at 10 kilometres.<\/p>\n
Measurements of earthquakes often vary in the first hours after they occur.<\/p>\n
There were no immediate reports of casualties.<\/p>\n
On November 4, 1952, a magnitude-9.0 quake in Kamchatka caused damage but no reported deaths despite setting off 9.1-meter waves in Hawaii.<\/p>\n
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