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A powerful 8.7 chips earthquake struck on the coast of the Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday, which fueled a tsunami with waves up to 4 meters (13 feet). The earthquake led to damage to the construction and evacuations in the areas concerned. “Today’s earthquake was serious and the strongest in decades of tremor,” said Kamchatka Governor Vladimir Solodov said in a video posted on the telegram messaging app, AP reports. He added that there was no injuries according to provisional information, but that a nursery school was damaged. Watch videos here: A tsunami with a golf height of 3-4 meters was recorded in the parts of the Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula in its Far East, after a mighty earthquake fell off the region, Reuters said. Tsunami waves between 3 and 4 meters (10-13 feet) were reported in parts of Kamchatka, according to Sergei Lebedev, the local emergency minister, who urged residents to stay away from the coastline of the Peninsula. The US geological survey said the earthquake was relatively level, which took place at a depth of 12 miles (12 miles). It was located about 125 km (80 miles) East South East of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a 165,000 coastal city along Avacha Bay. The agency later upgraded the size of the earthquake from an initial 8.0 to 8.7. The Japan Weather Agency has upgraded its warning, saying it expects tsunami waves to reach up to 3 meters (10 feet) of large coastal areas starting from 0100 GMT. The government said the government was broadcast for some areas. The US Tsunami warning system also issued a warning within the next three hours about ‘dangerous tsunami waves’ within the next three hours along some coastal region of Russia, Japan and Hawaii. A tsunami watch was also in force for the US island area of Guam and other Micronesia islands. Today’s earthquake was serious and the strongest in decades of tremor. We urge residents to stay away from the coastline of the Peninsula. An evacuation order for the small town of Severo-Kurilsk, south of the Peninsula, was declared due to the Tsunami threat, Sakhalin Governor Valery Limarenko said at Telegram. Kamchatka and Russia’s Far East sits on the Pacific of Fire, a geologically active region prone to large earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, reports AP. (With inputs of AP)