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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman.
A magnitude 8.8 earthquake hit Russia's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday morning.
The powerful quake has triggered tsunami waves and evacuation orders across the Pacific region,
including in Alaska and Hawaii, as NPR's Charles Maynes reports from Moscow.
Russian scientists say even for a region known for volcanoes and seismic activity,
the quake on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula registered as the region's largest in 70 years.
Online videos showed a sustained earthquake lasting some three minutes,
sending residents running onto the streets,
waves reaching as high as 13 feet quickly swamped seaport areas in Kamchatka and Russia's northern Kuril Islands,
unmooring ships and even some buildings.
In nearby coastal Japan, evacuation orders were issued for tens of thousands of people.
Charles Maines, NPR News, Moscow.
The National Transportation Safety Board will kick off a three-day hearing today on the deadly crash between a plane and a helicopter outside of Washington,
D.C. earlier this year.
As MPERS Joe Hernandez reports, the agency will look at the helicopter's data systems,
air traffic control policies and more.