Tsunami alerts have been issued for US, Japan and Canada after a massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake hit Russia on Tuesday.A ...

A magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday, generating a tsunami of up to 4 metres (13 feet), damaging buildings and prompting warnings and evacuations ...

An 8.8 magnitude earthquake off Russia's far east coast early Wednesday was the region's strongest since 1952, with aftershocks of up to 7.5 magnitude possible, the regional seismic monitoring service ...

The Russian Far East is comparatively empty, with only 1.3 people per kilometer. China ’ s Manchurian population has increased 13 percent in a little more than a decade.