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.

An aerial view shows Crescent City's harbor after tsunami waves, triggered by a quake off Russia's coast, caused close to $1 million in damage. Crescent City — one of California’s northernmost towns and Del Norte County ’s lone city — took a close-to-$1 million hit to its harbor after tsunami waves battered the North Coast earlier this week.

A tsunami advisory was issued for the California coast following an 8.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia on Tuesday afternoon, July 29.