A powerful earthquake struck off Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday, triggering widespread tsunami warnings and evacuation orders along coastal areas in Hawai’i and Japan.

The big picture: The quake that the U.S. Geological Survey estimated to be 8.8-magnitude is one of the biggest ever recorded.

State of play: Tsunami alerts were issued for the U.S. West Coast and multiple countries.

• The quake’s epicenter was 40 miles from the Kamchatka Peninsula’s coast at a depth of about 11 miles, per the USGS.

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