From Global News.

A tsunami watch for much of the British Columbia coast has been upgraded to an advisory following a powerful earthquake off the coast of eastern Russia.

The now recorded magnitude 8.8 quake struck 136 kilometres southeast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula shortly before 4:30 p.m. PST on Tuesday.

The earthquake, among the strongest ever recorded, prompted tsunami advisories and warnings along the entire west coast of Canada, including in Haida Gwaii, the north and central coast, and parts of Vancouver Island, such as popular vacation spot Tofino.

Global’s Sophie Lui reports.

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