The National Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami warning for parts of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, and a watch for portions of the West Coast, including California, Oregon, Washington and

A tsunami advisory was issued late Tuesday for portions of coastal British Columbia after one of the most powerful earthquakes in recent history struck off the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Russia.

Japan’s meteorological agency issued a tsunami alert for the Pacific coast, upgrading an earlier advisory stemming from the magnitude 8.0 quake near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.