Mega 8.8 Earthquake Hits Off East Russia

[PeterRS]

Another massive quake has hit, this time to the east of Russia. 8.8 on the Richter scale is a huge earthquake getting quite close to that off Japan in 2011 which resulted in such massive destruction. Evacuation orders have been posted in Japan and Hawaii and the first tsunami has now hit Japan's Hokkaido. Mercifully it was small. Tsunami warnings are in place all over the Pacific, even as far as Ecuador.

The Russian Academy of Sciences has warned that aftershocks, possibly as large as 7.5, should be expected for the next month.

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