A tsunami advisory was also issued for the Aleutian Islands in Alaska​, and a tsunami watch was issued for Hawaii, the U.S. National Weather Service said.

An earthquake of magnitude 8.8 - one of the world's strongest-struck Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula early on Wednesday, generating a tsunami of up to 4 metres (13 feet).

Japan’s meteorological agency issued a tsunami alert for Japan’s Pacific coast, upgrading an earlier advisory stemming from the powerful, magnitude 8.0