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The US Tsunami Warning Center ended most of the tsunami advisories Wednesday across the Pacific coast following an 8.8 magnitude earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

The center kept an advisory level for California's coast from Rincon Point, 15 miles (24 kilometers) southeast of Santa Barbara, to the Ragged Point and the coast from Humboldt/Del Norte Line to the Oregon border in its latest update at 12.21 pm local time (1921GMT).

The remaining advisories were cancelled.

Earlier advisories covered Santa Barbara to Washington state, including San Francisco Bay and Alaska's Aleutian Islands.  

Hawaii lifts evacuation orders, tsunami advisory

Hawaii County canceled evacuation orders for coastal zones, allowing residents to return home, its civil defense agency announced on X.

It also ended the state-wide tsunami advisory, according to a final report from the tsunami warning center in Honolulu at 8.59 am local time (1859GMT).

The warning center said for other US and Canadian Pacific coasts in North America, there is no tsunami threat beyond the specified areas under a warning or advisory.  

Crescent City sees highest waves

Crescent City, California recorded the maximum tsunami height at 4.0 feet, followed by Arena Cove at 3.0 feet and Point Reyes at 2.6 feet. Port San Luis measured 2.7 feet while San Francisco registered 1.2 feet and Santa Barbara reached 1.3 feet.

Along the Pacific Northwest, Port Orford, Oregon recorded 1.4 feet, with La Push, Washington measuring 1.3 feet. Alaska's Adak registered 2.7 feet and Amchitka recorded 1.8 feet.

The earthquake struck at a depth of 20.7 kilometers, centered 119 kilometers east-southeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The Russian Academy of Sciences called it the strongest regional quake since 1952.