Honolulu/Chiba ¨C One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Russia¡¯s sparsely populated Far East on Wednesday, causing tsunami up to 4 meters across the Pacific and sparking evacuations as far away as Hawaii.
The quake struck in the morning off Petropavlovsk on Russia¡¯s remote Kamchatka Peninsula and was one of the 10 biggest recorded, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
Russian authorities said tsunami hit and flooded the port town of Severo-Kurilsk, while local media said one of between 3-and-4-meters high was recorded in the Elizovsky district of Kamchatka.
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