The U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center has issued tsunami alerts across the U.S. West Coast following a Magnitude 8.8 earthquake near eastern Russia, in the North Pacific Ocean.

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).

The entire U.S. West Coast is facing a tsunami threat after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake erupted off Russia's eastern coast on Tuesday. A tsunami warning was issued in Hawaii, Northern California and in Alaska,