SAN FRANCISCO – The Bay Area and other coastal areas of California are under a tsunami watch following a magnitude 8.7 earthquake in Russia’s Far East, the National Weather Service said. The watch also extends to coastal area of Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Alaska.

The San Francisco Bay Ferry system will be operating normal service on Wednesday despite a tsunami advisory issued for the California coast following

The year’s strongest earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, triggering tsunami warnings in the U.S. West Coast, Hawaii, Japan and across the Pacific.