From DW News.

Millions of people have been evacuating from coastal regions along the Pacific after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded.

The 8.8 magnitude quake hit off the Kamchatka Peninsula – a sparsely populated part of Russia’s Far East – triggering a tsunami, which soon struck Russia’s Kuril Islands and Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido.

In other areas, people have been rushing to higher areas after tsunami warnings were issued. Take a look at these numbers. According to the National Centers for Environmental Information in the US, this is approximately how long it takes a tsunami to reach different parts of the Pacific.

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