Tsunami warning lifted in two regions of Russia's Far East after powerful earthquake in Kamchatka

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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News

Moscow, July 30 (Xinhua) — Authorities in Russia's Kamchatka Krai and the North Kuril District of Sakhalin Oblast have cancelled the tsunami warning issued after a powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Kamchatka on Wednesday morning, TASS reported, citing the regional authorities' Telegram channels.

“Our colleagues from the UGMS (Department of Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring) have issued the all-clear tsunami alarm,” the words of the Minister of Emergency Situations of the Kamchatka Territory, Sergei Lebedev, are quoted in the Telegram channel of the regional government.

“Attention! The tsunami alert has been lifted,” reads the message on the official Telegram channel of the Severo-Kurilsky Municipal District administration.

The earthquake that occurred was the strongest since 1952. Its magnitude, according to some estimates, reached 8.8. –0–

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