Russia earthquakes: Several buildings were destroyed and

Several buildings were destroyed and many people were left injured after a powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka region on Wednesday, triggering tsunami warnings across Japan and the US West Coast and Hawaii. When a magnitude 8.8 earthquake rocked Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on Tuesday, officials warned that damaging tsunami waves could follow. Instead, the waves that reached Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast proved smaller than initially feared. Russia Earthquake, Tsunami Highlights: An earthquake of magnitude 8.8 - one of the world's strongest-struck Russia's far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula early on Wednesday, generating a tsunami... One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded hit Russia’s Far East, flooding a fishing port with waves from a tsunami, cutting power to a few areas and sending some panicked residents to flee buildings but causing only a few injuries.