An 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s eastern coast on late Wednesday morning, local time. The quake triggered tsunami waves across the Pacific that hit Russia, Japan, Canada and parts of the US coast.

A powerful earthquake struck Wednesday off Russia’s Far East coast, flooding a fishing port with waves from a tsunami, cutting power to a few areas and sending some panicked residents fleeing buildings but causing only a few injuries.

MOSCOW − The Klyuchevskoy volcano on the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia's far east started erupting after a powerful earthquake in the Pacific, Russian state news agency RIA reported. The shallow tremor off the Kamchatka Peninsula damaged buildings and injured several people in the remote Russian region,