If you live in British Columbia or southern Alaska, Canada, the alarm bell is ringing and you’ve just got to be at alert.

And if you have a friend or relative living or visiting the area, please remember him or her in your prayers.

This is because officials have issued a tsunami warning for parts of southern Alaska in the wake of a 7.7 magnitude earthquake that hit the west of the Alaska coast minutes ago.

The alarm bell is getting louder and louder, according to Associated Press and inagist.com from whose tweets News Express pieced together this story.

•Photo, courtesy bernews.com, shows a tsunami threatening a town.