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.

A volcano in Russia’s Far East erupted hours after a major earthquake triggered tsunami warnings as far away as California and Chile.

The Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano on Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula has begun erupting, the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Geophysical Service reports. According to the experts, lava is flowing down the volcano’s western slope,