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A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake has struck near the east coast of Russia's Kamchatka region, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of damage.

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PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, September 19. /TASS/. An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 has occurred in Kamchatka, the local branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences ...