It said analysis by the country's National Tsunami Warning Center "triggers a tsunami alert along the Peruvian coast".

"The event will be continuously monitored," the navy's Directorate of Hydrography and Navigation said on social media platform X.

The National Emergency Operations Center of the National Civil Defense Institute also said on X it was monitoring regions of the Peruvian coast.

The president of the country's Geophysical Institute, Hernando Tavera, told AFP the tsunami "generated by this earthquake is expected to reach the Peruvian coast on Wednesday morning, with waves not expected to exceed three meters in height."

The powerful quake struck off the Russian coast near the Kamchatka peninsula, injuring several people and prompting tsunami warnings across the Pacific, from Japan to Hawaii.

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