Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula is a land of superlatives. It is one of the most volcanologically active regions on Earth. It has the world's densest population of brown bears. Next to Yellowstone ...

The earthquake, which was measured as severe on the Richter scale, hit near the East Coast of Kamchatka peninsula in the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday at 12.40 am, as per the Indian time.

From the mouth of the Bolshaya, on Kamchatka's west coast, it must enter the bigger world of the Sea of Okhotsk, a frigid but nourishing body of water between the peninsula and mainland Russia.