Magnitude 7.4 earthquake strikes off Russian Far East tsunami warning issued

An earthquake of magnitude 7.4 struck off the coast of Russia’s eastern Kamchatka peninsula on Saturday.

The epicentre of the quake, which took place at a depth of about 39 km, was 111 km east of the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky city. The earthquake struck at about 8 am Indian time, according to the United States Geological Survey.

It was not immediately known if the quake had led to casualties and if it had triggered a tsunami warning.