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

Kamchatka is a 1,250-kilometre-long peninsula located in the Far East of Russia. The Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Okhotsk serve as the eastern and western coastlines of the peninsula, respectively.

The United States and Japan have issued tsunami warnings following a powerful earthquake off the eastern coast of Russia, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS) and Bloomberg. According to the US Geological Survey (USGS),