Earthquake of magnitude 7.4 strikes off Russian coast

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on Saturday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported. The quake occurred 111 kilometres (69 miles) east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the administrative centre of the Kamchatka region, at a depth of 39.5 kilometres,