A massive earthquake with a preliminary
magnitude of 6.6 has hit in the Pacific Ocean off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.

The United States Geological
Survey said the quake struck at a depth of 30 kilometres and was centred 225
kilometres west-southwest of Nilol’skoye, Komandorskiye Ostrova, Russia.

There was no danger of a
Pacific-wide tsunami from the quake, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.

The area borders the Bering
Sea which separates Russia from the US.

It has
been hit by earthquakes measuring up to 7.6 magnitude as recently as 2006.

– with Reuters