Tsunami alerts were issued for Alaska and Hawaii on Tuesday after a major, 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Russia, according to officials.

The Klyuchevskoy eruption was hours after a huge earthquake early Wednesday triggered a tsunami that sent waves across the Pacific.

A volcano on Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula has erupted for what scientists said is the first time in hundreds of years, days after a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake.The Krasheninnikov volcano sent ash more than three miles into the sky,