A tsunami advisory for multiple parts of the B.C. coast was cancelled early Wednesday following a large earthquake in the Pacific basin near Kamchatka, Russia, on Tuesday afternoon. The U.S.-based National Tsunami Warning Centre says there was a magnitude 8.8 earthquake about 135 kilometres southeast of the Russian city of Petropavlovsk around 4:25 p.m. PT. CBC’s Amelia John reports on what happened along the B.C. coastline in the hours that followed.
