In the next few hours, the California coast will experience impacts from the massive quake that hit the western Russian coast.

A tsunami watch has been issued for the California coast after a powerful earthquake struck across the Pacific Ocean.

A massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia's Pacific coast on Tuesday, sparking tsunami warnings -- and evacuations of coastal areas -- in Hawaii and alerts all down the U.S. West Coast. After the initial tsunami waves had washed ashore in Hawaii and along the West Coast,