JAKARTA:Indonesia's geophysics agency issued a warning that tsunami waves of less than 0.5 metre could hit some parts of Indonesia on Wednesday (July 30) afternoon following an 8.7 magnitude quake in Russia.

Weather agency have issued tsunami warnings across six provinces in eastern Indonesia after one of the largest earthquakes in history struck the Kamchatka Peninsula in far eastern Russia on Wednesday morning.

A magnitude 8.2 earthquake caused a tsunami that killed more than 5,200 people on Dec. 30, 1703, according to NOAA data. The event occurred off the southwest Boso Peninsula, which is just south of Tokyo, Japan.