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Wednesday’s magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska's Aleutian Islands chain struck in a region that has experienced a handful of ...
Communities along a 700-mile stretch of Alaska’s southern coast ordered their residents to higher ground after a powerful ...
A major earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 initially triggered a tsunami warning for the southern Alaska ...
I’ve got liquid smoke and barbecue sauce and pickles ... broken on the floor,” the manager of the local general store said.
Ground shaking was strongest in Sand Point, with reports of "objects flying out of the pantry and off of shelves," noted the ...
A tsunami warning that was later downgraded was issued for several coastal communities after the earthquake struck south of ...
A lightly populated stretch of Alaska ’s southern coast was under a tsunami warning Wednesday after a strong earthquake was ...
Alaska averages 40,000 earthquakes per year, with more large quakes than the other 49 states combined. Southern Alaska has a high risk of earthquakes due to tectonic plates sliding past each other ...
If the magnitude 8.2 estimate holds, the quake may be the most powerful in North America since a magnitude 8.7 earthquake in Alaska, Brian McNoldy, senior research associate at University of Miami ...
Alaska has been hit by a number of powerful quakes over 7.0 in recent decades, including a 7.9 last year southeast of Kodiak Island. It is rare, though, for a quake this big to strike so close to ...
A 7.3 magnitude earthquake was recorded off the Alaska Peninsula on Wednesday afternoon, July 16. The U.S.