Tsunami waves arrive on the Japanese coast after the earthquake in Russia, triggering Tsunami alerts for the American West Coast

Tsunami waves arrived on the eastern coast of Japan after a powerful earthquake off the eastern coast of Russia.

The earthquake of magnitude 8.8 sparked the fears of a tsunami in a large part of the Pacific Ocean basin, including the banks of Hawaii, southern Alaska, all of the American West Coast and British Columbia.

People are watching the coastal region from a higher ground after Japan has expressed an evacuation alert after a major earthquake in the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia which sparked a Tsunami warning, at Yotsukura beach in Iwaki, Fukushima prefecture, Japan on July 30, 2025. (Reuters)

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Tsunami’s warnings are in force for Hawaii and certain parts of Alaska, while the entire American West Coast and British Columbia are under tsunami opinion after the earthquake struck just east of Petropavlovsk, Russia, according to Fox Weather.

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