India, July 30 -- India's Tsunami Warning Centre, operated by INCOIS, has confirmed that the powerful seismic activity in Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula poses no threat to the Indian mainland or the broader Indian Ocean region.

This comes a massive 8.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Russia's Far East in the early hours of Wednesday, triggering tsunami warnings across several Pacific nations including the United States, Japan, and New Zealand.

While INCOIS noted that the earthquake measured at 8.7, USGS has updated its preliminary readings of the earthquake off the coast of Kamchatka this and has classified it at a magnitude 8.8 quake. Follow Tsunami warning live updates.

According to the Indian National Centre for O...