(BIVN) – A magnitude-7.0 earthquake off the east coast of Kamchatka, Russia triggered a Tsunami Threat on Saturday morning, but officials determined there was no threat to Hawaiʻi.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu said the earthquake, which struck at 9:10 a.m. HST, did not generate a Pacific-wide tsunami. Emergency officials said there is no tsunami threat to Hawaiʻi.
Initially, hazardous tsunami waves were forecast as a possibility for some coasts of Russia.
At around 10:18 a.m. on Saturday, an updated message from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center reported that there was no longer a tsunami threat to any locations in the Pacific due to the earthquake.
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HAWAIʻI - The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu says the large quake off the east coast of Kamchatka, Russia did not create a tsunami threat for the State of Hawaiʻi.