Close a major earthquake Alaska The tsunami advisor for the southern peninsula of the state with an initial magnitude of 7.2.
According to the National Weather Service, the tsunami advisor was downgraped on Wednesday afternoon after an earthquake, about 50 miles south of the sand point at around 12:38 pm local time.
According to the US Geological Survey, several afterchoxes have been reported near the sand point.
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A tsunami warning coordinator in National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Dave Sniper told CBS affiliation Kttu-TV That a tsunami has been confirmed and they will still see some effects along the south -western coast, but not expected of large, broad waves.
“The good news is that the incident happened in shallow water,” the snider told KTUU. “We are not expecting a major flood of water on the coast.”
According to the NOAA, the depth of the earthquake was about 12 miles.
The affected areas spread the Kennedy entrance, a channel that connects the Gulf of Alaska to cook the inlet, from the Animak Pass, which is only in the west of the Animak island at the end of the peninsula. As the ET at 5:30 pm, there was no threat to the state’s most populous city of Encourage, NWS ancorezes Said.
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The Alaska Earthquake Center said the earthquake was felt throughout the Alaska Peninsula and southern Alaska.
Earlier in the day, a magnitude 5.2 earthquake also killed the region. It was located about 40 miles south -east from the island of Atka, the earthquake center said.
The southern coast of Alaska is located with the seismically active Pacific “Ring of Fire”. In March 1964, the strongest recorded earthquake in North America occurred when the 9.2-detection earthquake destroyed the langar and removed a tsunami, killing more than 250 people.
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