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

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.

The Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano on Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula has begun erupting, the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Geophysical Service reports. According to the experts, lava is flowing down the volcano’s western slope,