A major earthquake from Alaska with an initial magnitude of 7.2 triggers a tsunami warning to the southern peninsula of the state.
According to the National Weather Service, the tsunami warning came into force on Wednesday afternoon after an earthquake of about 50 miles south of Sand Point, Alaska at around 12:38 pm local time. 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.
According to the Alaska Earthquake Center, earthquakes were 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.
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