After earthquake and tsunami, volcano erupts in Russia's far east
As the Klyuchevskoy volcano erupted in Russia, Japan and Hawaii downgraded their tsunami warnings.
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Tsunami warnings caused evacuations in Hawaii after Russian earthquake
The 8.8 magnitude earthquake was one of the biggest ever recorded, prompting tsunami alerts across the Pacific.
MOSCOW − The Klyuchevskoy volcano on the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia's far east started erupting after a powerful earthquake in the Pacific, Russian state news agency RIA reported.
The shallow tremor off the Kamchatka Peninsula damaged buildings and injured several people in the remote Russian region, while much of Japan's eastern seaboard − devastated by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami in 2011 − was ordered to evacuate, as were parts of Hawaii.
By the evening of July 30, Japan and Hawaii had downgraded their tsunami warnings, but authorities in French Polynesia warned residents of several of the remote Marquesas Islands to move to higher ground, and follow official instructions.