A tsunami warning has been issued for Hawaii, where waves set off by an 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Russia’s remote Far East are expected to arrive after 7 p.m. local time (1 a.m. ET).

According to Japan's meteorological agency, the tsunami has started to hit parts of Japan, beginning in Hokkaido.

The Kamchatka Krai earthquake was centered 74 mi (119 km) east-southeast of the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, which has a population of 165,000, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, and it le...