(Reuters) – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky region, Russia, on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), USGS said.

The U.S. National Weather Service’s Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii issued a tsunami advisory following the quake.

(Reporting by Rajveer Singh Pardesi in Bengaluru; Editing by Leslie Adler and David Gregorio)

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