A powerful offshore quake reverberated across the Kamchatka region and triggered tsunami alerts Surgeons in Russia’s Far East continued a high-risk operation undeterred as an 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the regional authorities have reported. The undersea quake, which hit around 11:30am local time on Wednesday, was the strongest recorded in the region since 1952, according to the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The