The Klyuchevskoy eruption was hours after a huge earthquake early Wednesday triggered a tsunami that sent waves across the Pacific.

After one of the most powerful earthquakes in modern history, the Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano began to erupt in Kamchatka.According to the Kamchatka branch of

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.