Tsunami warning issued for parts of Alaska after 8.2 quake Share Updated: 5:24 AM EDT Jul 29, 2021 Associated Press Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images View of the Naknek River and tundra during the flight by seaplane from King Salmon on the Katmai Peninsula in Alaska, USA to Brooks Lake in Katmai National Park and Preserve. SOURCE: Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images
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The latest breaking updates, delivered straight to your email inbox. Share Updated: 5:24 AM EDT Jul 29, 2021 Associated Press A tsunami warning was issued for parts of Alaska after a large earthquake struck the peninsula.The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was magnitude 8.2 and hit 56 miles east southeast of Perryville, Alaska, at about 8:15 p.m. Wednesday. The quake was about 29 miles below the surface of the ocean, according to USGS.The U.S. National Tsuna
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Residents scrambled to higher ground or to evacuate coastal towns late Wednesday and early Thursday after a massive earthquake struck off Alaska s coast, triggering aftershocks and now-canceled tsunami warnings.
Pat Branson, mayor of Kodiak, the major city of Alaska s Kodiak Island, told CNN the magnitude 8.2 earthquake was the strongest in the area since the 1960 s. The quake triggered the area s third evacuation in 18 months.
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 s Department of Atmospheric Science, said on Twitter.