One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded hit Russia’s Far East, flooding a fishing port with waves from a tsunami, cutting power to a few areas and sending some panicked residents to flee buildings but causing only a few injuries.

Eyewitness video captured tsunami waves flooding the small Russian town of Severo-Kurilsk on Wednesday morning.

MOSCOW − The Klyuchevskoy volcano on the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia's far east started erupting after a powerful earthquake in the Pacific, Russian state news agency RIA reported. The shallow tremor off the Kamchatka Peninsula damaged buildings and injured several people in the remote Russian region,