An earthquake of magnitude 6.7 struck Russia's Kuril Islands on Sunday day, the German Research Center for Geosciences said. The agency initially had pegged the earthquake at 6.35 magnitude, with a 10-km (6.

There is no tsunami threat to Hawaii after a large 6.8 magnitude earthquake tonight off Russia in the same area of Tuesday’s 8.8 magnitude quake that generated a Pacific-wide tsunami, officials said.