WARNINGS of a possible tsunami within 300km of a shallow magnitude 7.8 quake off the coast of Russia have been cancelled..
The epicentre is reported to have been 234km of Nikol’Skoye, Russia, among the Komandorski islands of the Bering Strait.
A tsunami advisory was initially issued by the US NWS for residents of the nearby Aleutian Islands, Alaska.
Tue Jul 18 00:11:26 UTC 2017 event picture pic.twitter.com/gr5T0kq3MQ — NWS Tsunami Alerts (@NWS_NTWC) July 18, 2017.
Automated reporting systems indicate the quake happened at a shallow depth of about 10km, potentially sending ripples through the seafloor above.
Initially reported as magnitude 7.4, the US National Weather Service later revised this upwards - stating it was of 7.8 strength.
The quake was in the Bering Strait, on the Russian side of the channel which separates it from Alaska. »