"There were repercussions of the quake in Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow and Europe, in particular Romania. Practically the whole continent shook," Anatoly Tsygankov of the state Rosgidromet environmental monitoring service told the Interfax news agency.
However the emergencies ministry said it had called off a tsunami warning that had been issued for the Sakhalin region and added there were no reports of casualties following the quake that was measured at a magnitude of 8.2 by the USGS.
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