A powerful 7.8 earthquake shook the Alaska Peninsula and a tsunami warning was issued.
According to the US Geological Survey, the 7.8 magnitude earthquake occurred on Tuesday at 11:12 p.m. PST. It was 6 miles (9.6 km) deep and centered 60 miles (96 km) south-southeast of Perryville, Alaska.
Early Wednesday morning, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the tsunami warning issued for southern Alaska, the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands had been canceled.
A tsunami warning was canceled Tuesday night for the coastal areas east and west of the tsunami warning areas.
On Kodiak Island, the local high school opened its doors for evacuees, as did the local Catholic school, the Anchorage Daily News reported.
“We have a crowded high school,” said Larry LeDoux, superintendent of the Kodiak School District. “I have been wearing masks since the first siren sounded,” he told the Daily News.
“Everything is as calm as possible. We probably have 300,400 people in masks,” he said.
The center said that for other Pacific coasts of the United States and Canada in North America, there is no tsunami threat.
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