Quakes off Russia's Pacific coast spark tsunami warning
The larger quake struck on Sunday at a depth of 20km and was 144km east of the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, which has a population of 180,000, according to the US Geological Survey.
A few minutes earlier, a quake with a magnitude of 6.7 was recorded nearby.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami warning for Russia and Hawaii following the quakes but it has since been cancelled.
The German Research Center for Geosciences indicated twin earthquakes of more than 6.5 magnitude struck near the coast of Kamchatka, in Russia's far east, early on Sunday.
It measured the quakes at 6.6 and 6.7 and the depth of both at 10km.
Measurements of earthquakes often vary in the first hours after they occur.
There were no immediate reports of casualties.
On November 4, 1952, a magnitude 9.0 quake in Kamchatka caused damage but no reported deaths despite setting off 9.1-metre waves in Hawaii.
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