Coastlines of New Zealand — about 9,600km from the quake's epicenter — were experiencing strong currents and wave surges.

An earthquake of magnitude 8.8 - one of the world's strongest-struck Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula early on ...

But the danger appeared to be waning in some places, with the US state of Hawaii and Japan downgrading their warnings.

A tsunami sent waves into parts of Russia, Japan, Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off ...

Tsunami warnings have been issued in several countries after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Russia, with ...

Almost 2 million people in Japan were ordered to higher ground before the warnings were downgraded or rescinded.

In 1952, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck Kamchatka Krai, Russia, marking the world’s first recorded magnitude 9 earthquake.

A major magnitude 8.7 earthquake struck early Wednesday in far eastern Russia. Tsunami alerts have been issued in parts of ...

Over one million people were evacuated from Chile’s coast after a powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia ...

Tsunami warnings have been issued in several countries after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Russia, with ...

Tsunami warnings were lifted across the Pacific Rim on Wednesday, allowing millions of temporary evacuees to return home.