A powerful earthquake struck Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. The quake triggered tsunami warnings across the Pacific. Following the earthquake, the Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano erupted. Lava flowed down the volcano.

The shallow tremor off the Kamchatka Peninsula damaged buildings and injured several people in the remote Russian region, while much of Japan's eastern seaboard − devastated by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami in 2011 − was ordered to evacuate, as were parts of Hawaii.

Residents fled inland as ports flooded on Kamchatka near the quake's epicenter, while frothy, white waves washed up on the shore in northern Japan. Cars jammed streets and highways in Honolulu, with standstill traffic even in areas away from the sea.