7.7-magnitude quake:Tsunami advisories issued for Russian Bering Island, no threat for local population

Tsunami advisories have been issued for the township of Nikolskoye on Russia’s Bering Island off the Kamchatka peninsula after a quake, but the height of the tsunami wave will not exceed half-a-meter, a source from the Kamchatka branch of the Russian Academy of Science’s Geophysical Service told Tass on Tuesday.

Magnitude 6.9 quake hits off Alaska, Aleutian Islands

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit Friday off Alaska's Aleutian Islands, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.