Island scarred: Drone footage released by the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences showing tsunami-hit Severo-Kurilsk on Paramushir Island of Russia’s northern Kuril Islands. — AFP
One of the world’s strongest earthquakes struck Russia’s Far East early yesterday, an 8.8-magnitude temblor that caused tsunami waves in Japan and Alaska and prompted warnings for Hawaii, North and Central America and Pacific islands south toward New Zealand.
Ports on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, near the quake’s epicentre, flooded as residents fled inland, and frothy, white waves washed up to the shore in northern Japan.
