The tsunami advisory for Hawaii has been lifted after a massive earthquake off Russia’s far eastern coast put the region on high alert. Tsunami warnings for the US coastline and Japan were ...

One of the most powerful earthquakes in modern history shook Russia’s remote east coast Wednesday, sending tsunami waves ...

The quake off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in far east Russia was the world’s strongest since 2011, when a 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit northeast Japan, triggering a devastating tsunami.

That earthquake was the most powerful ever recorded in Japan, and the fourth most powerful tremor ever recorded since modern seismology began. It resulted in massive damage, nearly 20,000 deaths ...