Buildings surrounded by water after tsunami warning issued

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Water enveloped buildings in the Russian town of Severo-Kurilsk, after an enormous, magnitude 8.8 earthquake stuck the region early on the morning of July 30. The tremor struck southeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, in Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). Russia’s state-owned news agency TASS, citing the country’s Unified Geophysical Service, said it was the strongest earthquake the region had experienced since 1952.