Five powerful quakes, including one with a magnitude of 7.4, struck in the sea off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

After powerful earth tremors in the Pacific Ocean, residents of several settlements in Kamchatka had been advised to climb to elevations 30-40 metres high or move at least 2-3 kilometres away from the coast because of the tsunami threat,

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre has declared no tsunami danger on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula after two earthquakes occurred. The larger quake registered a magnitude of 7.4, occurring 144 km east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.