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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A seismograph in Pennsylvania picked up an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 close to the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia on Tuesday. This earthquake caused warnings for parts of Alaska and Hawaii and prompted tsunami alerts for Japan. The University of Pittsburgh operated the seismograph at the Allegheny Observatory. That earthquake on Tuesday was one of the strongest earthquakes in the world and the strongest since an earthquake off northeast Japan occurred in March of 2011. That 2011 earthquake had a magnitude of 9.0, which caused a tsunami that then created meltdowns at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima.