Russia’s Far East rocked by major quake, tsunami alerts issued

The 8.8-magnitude quake, centred off the Kamchatka Peninsula near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, caused waves up to 15 metres high on parts of the Russian coast.

Several people were injured, mostly while fleeing buildings, and aftershocks reached magnitudes of 6.9.

Tsunami waves reached Japan and Hawaii,…