Powerful quake in Russia's Far East causes tsunami, Japan orders evacuations

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A magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday (July 30), damaging buildings and generating a tsunami of up to 4m that prompted warnings and evacuations stretching across the Pacific Ocean.  Several people were injured in the remote Russian region, while much of Japan's eastern seaboard - devastated by a powerful earthquake and tsunami in 2011 - was ordered to evacuate.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:29So, in the 15th garden garden, there was a broken part of the facade.

00:34Thank God, there was no one who died, there was no one, but there was no one.

00:38Today's earthquake became a serious experience for all of us.

00:43It was the most of the last decade of the last 10 years.

00:48Now, specialists, seismologists, they have an assessment.

00:53They have an assessment of 7,7% to 7,9%.

00:58and there was a threat to tsunami, so I will again repeat the request to

01:05get out of the borderline of the tsunami-like region in the first place.

01:10Now, by my recommendation, specialists started to investigate all the buildings,

01:16in the first place, social institutions.

01:18There is information, that in the 15th school school,

01:22there was a broken stone.

01:24Fortunately, children and adults in the same time

01:28there were no children.

01:30There were no victims.

01:32But now, on the place they were sent to the specialists.

01:52本日8時25分ごろ、カムチャカ半島付近を震源とするマグニチュード8.7の地震が発生いたしました。

02:02この地震に伴い、北海道から和歌山県の太平洋側の沿岸に津波警報が発表され、高いところで3メートル程度の津波が予想されております。

02:16警報が発表されている地域の皆様は、直ちに高台や避難ビルなどの安全な場所に避難をしてください。

02:27現時点で人的物的被害は確認中との報告を受けております。

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