The quake comes days after an 8.8-magnitude tremor in the region triggered tsunami alerts across Asia and the Pacific

MOSCOW: A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 struck Russia’s far eastern Kuril Islands on Sunday, days after a major seismic event rattled the nearby Kamchatka Peninsula, prompting tsunami concerns across the Pacific.

There is no tsunami threat to the Philippines from the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck Kuril Islands on Sunday afternoon, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).