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Alaska quake produces prolonged shaking >A line of cars evacuates the Homer Spit in Homer, Alaska, Wednesday, after a tsunami warning was issued following a magnitude 8.2 earthquake. Homer News via AP
Published: 7/29/2021 7:50:19 PM
ANCHORAGE, Alaska The largest earthquake in the United States in the last half century produced a lot of shaking but spared Alaska any major damage in a sparsely populated region, officials said Thursday.
The magnitude 8.2 earthquake was reported about 10:15 p.m. Wednesday, and struck just south of the Alaska Peninsula, nearly 500 miles southwest of Anchorage. The quake was about 29 miles below the surface of the North Pacific Ocean, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA The largest earthquake in the United States in the last half century produced a lot of shaking but spared Alaska any major damage in a sparsely populated region, officials said Thursday. The magnitude 8.2 earthquake was reported about 10:15 p.m. Wednesday, and it struck just south of the Alaska Peninsula, nearly 500 miles (804.67 kilometres) southwest of Anchorage. The quake was about 60 miles (96.56 kilometres) offshore and 29 miles (46 kilometres) below the surface of the North Pacific Ocean, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The Alaska Earthquake Center said on its website that it was the largest quake in the U.S. since a magnitude 8.7 quake in the Aleutians in 1965. A year before that, the magnitude 9.2 Good Friday earthquake devastated parts of Anchorage and other Alaska communities. That quake and ensuing tsunami killed 131 people from Alaska to California.
Alaska farms lots of salmon already
For years, Alaska officials have been resistant to offshore aquaculture, fearing the negative impacts it could have on wild, commercial fisheries.
However, the state does has 30 hatcheries operated mostly by private nonprofit (PNP) corporations made up of commercial salmon fishermen in southeast Alaska, Prince William Sound, Cook Inlet and Kodiak.
The hatcheries are used primarily for pink and chum salmon, and do not grow fish to adulthood, but incubate fertilized eggs and release resulting juveniles back into the wild, which eventually are harvested by the state s commercial fishing fleet.
In 2019, hatchery-produced salmon accounted for 25 percent of Alaska s total salmon harvest. Roughly 50 million hatchery salmon were caught and were worth an estimated $118 million (€99 million), or 18 percent of the state s total salmon harvest value.
Largest US quake in half-century causes Alaska little damage The magnitude 8.2 earthquake struck just south of the Alaska Peninsula.
By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press July 29, 2021 8:10pm Text size Copy shortlink:
ANCHORAGE, Alaska The largest earthquake in the United States in the last half century produced a lot of shaking but spared Alaska any major damage in a sparsely populated region, officials said Thursday.
The magnitude 8.2 earthquake was reported about 10:15 p.m. Wednesday, and it struck just south of the Alaska Peninsula, nearly 500 miles (804.67 kilometers) southwest of Anchorage. The quake was about 60 miles (96.56 kilometers) offshore and 29 miles (46 kilometers) below the sur