USS Carl Vinson stops in Hawaii before making final run home to San Diego

The USS Carl Vinson carrier strike group arrived in Hawaii on Wednesday for what’s expected to be its last stop before it returns to San Diego, wrapping up an often grueling deployment that has lasted roughly nine months.

Sailors crewed the carrier’s rails as it pulled into Pearl Harbor at an odd moment, just before a tsunami hit.

A magnitude-8.7 earthquake off Russia produced a wave that raised the sea level in some areas of Hawaii by more than 5 1/2 feet overnight. There were no reports of widespread damage.

This is the carrier’s first port visit in 125 days.

The Vinson left San Diego on Nov. 18 and headed to the Indo-Pacific. In March, President Donald Trump diverted it to the Arabian Sea to help fight missile and drone attacks by Iran-backed Houthi rebels on commercial and military shipping.

The carrier is the flag ship of a strike group that includes several San Diego warships, including the destroyers USS Princeton and USS Sterett. Three of the Vinson’s helicopter squadrons are based in San Diego.

The Navy has not indicated when the carrier will leave Pearl Harbor for the five-day trip to San Diego Bay.