Locals in coastal areas were ordered to evacuate immediately and see higher ground. Follow Newsweek for live updates.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Following a magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on July 29, NASA's GUARDIAN experimental technology detected signs of tsunami ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the Russian coastline on July 29. It sent millions who were thousands of miles away scrambling for higher ground in fear of an impending tsunami. To understand why this happened, we head deep into ...

The Rev. Dr. Wendell Anthony did not mince words about Sunday evening’s wild police shooting of a woman motorist that started as a routine traffic stop. In this image taken from a video released by Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Desperate Afghans clawed through rubble in the dead of the night in search of missing loved ones after a strong earthquake killed some 800 people and injured more than 2,500 in eastern Afghanistan, according to figures provided ...

One of the world’s strongest earthquakes struck Russia’s Far East early Wednesday, an 8.8-magnitude temblor that set off a tsunami in the northern Pacific region and prompted warnings for Alaska, Hawaii and other coasts south toward New Zealand.