Local seismographs registered the energy associated with the shockwave from one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded.

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TOKYO (AP) — One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off Russia’s sparsely populated Far East early Wednesday, sending tsunami waves into Japan, Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast. Several ...

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Large distant earthquakes in the past have generated tsunamis that caused significant damage and deaths in Hawaii. In 1946, a magnitude-7.9 Aleutian Islands, Alaska earthquake generated a tsunami that ...

Hawaii officials have confirmed there is no tsunami threat to the state after a powerful magnitude-7 earthquake struck Russia ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- There is no tsunami threat for Hawaii after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake was reported in the Kuril Islands. The earthquake hit Russia's Kuril Islands at 7:37 p.m. HST on Aug. 2 ...

When a tsunami warning was issued in Hilo, Hawaii, hundreds of Pride of America cruise passengers were off the ship out on ...

Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula and surrounding Pacific Rim regions continued to experience seismic instability, with dozens of ...

Winfrey has assured fans that she opened up her private road in Hawaii "as soon as" she heard the tsunami warnings.