The weather event came after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of Russia on Tuesday at 4:25, NWS reported. The earthquake is tied for the sixth-strongest magnitude ever recorded, since Japan’s 9.1 magnitude earthquake in 2011.

After a major earthquake struck eastern Russia Tuesday afternoon, people living across the Pacific braced for tsunamis.

Higher-than-normal waves struck Washington's beaches following a massive earthquake in Russia. Here's where they were the highest.