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Why devastating tsunamis didn’t follow the Russia earthquake

The powerful temblor, in a region known as “an earthquake factory,” produced only small waves afar

waves are shown from above moving towards a coastline

Relatively mild tsunami waves hit the shores of Tateyama, a city in Japan’s Chiba Prefecture, following a magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia’s eastern coast.

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By Nikk Ogasa

When a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck offshore of the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Russia on July 29, tsunami warnings quickly followed.