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The Alaska Earthquake Center said the 7.4 magnitude earthquake was widely felt in communities along the southern coast of the United States.
A magnitude 7.5 earthquake off the Alaska Peninsula is triggering tsunami warnings for a wide swath of communities in the US.
The size of the earthquake was originally reported to be a magnitude 7.4, but has been revised to 7.5, said Paul Caruso, a geophysicist with the US Geological Survey.
Public safety officials in King Cove, Alaska, issued an alert urging residents of the coastal area to move inland to higher ground.
The tsunami warning was issued by the National Tsunami Warning Center, following an earthquake in Sand Point, Alaska.
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The National Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer, Alaska, said the tsunami warning was in effect for approximately 1,529 kilometers, from 40 miles southeast of Homer to Unimak Pass, about 80 miles northeast of Unalaska.
The Alaska Earthquake Center said the earthquake was widely felt in communities along the southern coast, including Sand Point, Chignik, Unalaska and the Kenai Peninsula.
The Alaska Earthquake Center said a 5.2 magnitude aftershock was reported 11 minutes later, centered in roughly the same area.
“He was a good shaker here,” said David Adams, co-director of Marine View Bed and Breakfast at Sand Point. “We are doing well.” He said all the guests were accounted for and “the structure itself is solid.”
“You could see the water shivering and shimmering during the earthquake,” he said. “Our truck was rocking big.” He didn’t take any photos or video: “It just happened suddenly.”
Rita Tungul, a reception assistant at the Grand Aleutian Hotel in Unalaska, said she felt a shaking but it was not strong. His coworker didn’t feel the shaking at all, he said.
Unalaska officials sent a message saying the city is outside the warning zone and they are not ordering evacuations at this time.
Unalaska public safety officials earlier Monday (local time) had sent out a statement saying they would test the community’s tsunami warning sirens.
