Millions return home as tsunami warnings lifted

3 weeks ago

Tsunami warnings were lifted across the Pacific, allowing millions of people who had evacuated coastal areas to return home after a massive undersea earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. The 8.8 magnitude quake, one of the strongest recorded globally since 1900, triggered tsunami alerts in more than a dozen countries, including Japan, the United States, and Ecuador. Storm surges of up to