A volcano on Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula erupted overnight into Sunday for what scientists said is the first ...

A powerful earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale struck Russia's Kuril Islands on Sunday, shaking the region but causing no tsunami threat. The tremor, which originated at a shallow depth of ...

The eruption of the Krasheninnikov volcano was accompanied by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and prompted a tsunami warning.

Russia’s Ministry for Emergency Services lifted a tsunami warning for the Kamchatka Peninsula on Sunday, shortly after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the nearby Kuril Islands.

Olga Girina, head of the Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team (KVERT), called it “the first historically confirmed ...