Taiwan issues tsunami alert after magnitude 8.7 quake strikes off Russia's coast

Taiwan's Central Weather Administration (CWA) on Wednesday issued a "tsunami watch" alert after a magnitude 8.7 earthquake struck off the Kamchatka Peninsula in northeastern Russia earlier in the morning.

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