Earthquakes of magnitude 8.5 and larger are rare beasts on our planet and only 17 have been recorded since the era of seismographs beginning in the late 19th century.

Authorities in Far East Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsulasaid Wednesday that urgent upgrades to an undersea cable would cause a regionwide internet outage for at least five days starting next week. The regional government said the state telecommunications provider Rostelecom would carry out “large-scale” work on the Sakhalin-Kamchatka fiber-optic line

Terremoto de magnitud 7,4 se registra cerca de la costa este de la región de Kamchatka, Rusia, informa el USGS.