The National Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami warning for parts of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, and a watch for portions of the West Coast, including California, Oregon, Washington and

Kamchatka is a 1,250-kilometre-long peninsula located in the Far East of Russia. The Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Okhotsk serve as the eastern and western coastlines of the peninsula, respectively.

Meteorologist Geoff Fox brings us the latest on the colossal earthquake that rocked the Kamchatka Peninsula, a seismically active region close to Alaska. Spanning 200 miles, this slip fault earthquake was preceded by significant foreshocks,