The quake, tied for the sixth strongest in recorded history, struck just 75 miles from Avacha Bay, where some of the Russian Navy's most strategic nuclear assets are based

Russia said the temblor off the Kamchatka peninsula was ‘the strongest in decades’.

The Japan Weather Agency said it expected a tsunami of up to 1 metre (3.3 feet) to reach large coastal areas starting around 0100 GMT.

Tremors 'strongest in decades,' governor warns

"The strongest earthquake in the Kamchatka seismic focal zone since 1952 has just occurred," Kamchatka branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences…

Its magnitude reached 8.7 - this is the strongest earthquake since 1952 occurred in the Kamchatka region

A 8.8-magnitude earthquake shook the remote, sparsely populated Kamchatka region and set off tsunami waves. No serious injuries were reported, officials said.

The quake, tied for the sixth strongest in recorded history, struck just 75 miles from Avacha Bay, where some of the Russian Navy's most strategic nuclear assets are based

Satellite images show pier affected by huge wave generated by earthquake, although fleet unlikely to have been harmed

Satellite images appear to show a Russian nuclear submarine base left damaged from the Kamchatka tsunami which swept through the country’s pacific coast on Wednesday (30 July). …