If you're near the coast in Hawaii and unable to evacuate or stuck in traffic, seek shelter in the nearest building and move to the highest possible floor—ideally the fourth floor or higher.
AIS tracking data shows Japanese fishing vessels quickly leaving port and heading for deeper waters earlier today following the issuance of tsunami warnings.
Drone footage reveals extensive tsunami flood damage to coastal neighborhoods and the port in Severo-Kurilsk, a town on Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula.
Today's M8.8 earthquake off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula ranks as the sixth strongest earthquake ever recorded, tying with the 1906 Ecuador–Colombia earthquake and the 2010 Chile earthquake—both also measuring M8.8. It falls just behind the 1952 Severo-Kurilsk earthquake, which struck a similar area with a magnitude of 9.0.
The U.S. Army and Navy, working alongside the Hawaii Department of Transportation, have opened Kolekole Pass and sections of Schofield Barracks on Oahu to support the evacuation of coastal communities amid the ongoing Tsunami Warning for the state.