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                             Earthquake Hits Russia

   by VOA News

   Russian emergency officials have called off a brief tsunami warning
   after an 8.2- magnitude earthquake hit Russia's eastern coast Friday.
   Authorities had issued a tsunami warning for the Sakalin Islands.
   A Russian environmental monitoring service official told the Interfax
   news agency that "practically the whole continent shook."
   There were no reports of casualties.
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