The shallow tremor off the Kamchatka Peninsula damaged buildings and injured several people in the remote Russian region, while much of Japan's eastern seaboard − devastated by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami in 2011 − was ordered to evacuate, as were parts of Hawaii.

The 8.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Russia’s Far East Coast was one of the four strongest earthquakes of this century, according to the USGS. Dramatic video shows the violent shaking as the quake impacted the Kuril Islands and the Kamchatka peninsula.