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

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.

Russian authorities have cancelled tsunami alerts for the Kamchatka Peninsula, Sakhalin Island and the town of Severo-Kurilsk in the northern Kuril islands following Wednesday's powerful earthquake, officials said.