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.