There were no confirmed fatalities from Wednesday’s 8.8-magnitude earthquake off Kamchatka, which destroyed houses and injured a number of people in the isolated Russian territory.

Authorities in Hawaii, Japan, and several regions of Russia have downgraded their tsunami warnings, suggesting that the threat is already decreasing in some areas.

While frothy, white waves poured up on the shore in northern Japan, residents fled inland as ports flooded on Kamchatka, close to the epicentre of the earthquake. Highways and streets in Honolulu were congested with cars, and even in places that were not near the shore, traffic was at a standstill.