The coast of California is under a tsunami advisory after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck the east coast of Russia, the National Weather Service announced Tuesday.

A massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia’s Pacific coast on Tuesday, sparking tsunami warnings — and evacuations of coastal areas — in Hawaii and alerts all down the U.S. West Coast. After the initial tsunami waves had washed ashore in Hawaii

TOKYO / LOS ANGELES] A powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake off Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula triggered tsunami waves of up to 5 metres and sparked evacuation orders in Hawaii and across the Pacific on Wednesday (Jul 30).