Tsunami alert after magnitude 7.4 earthquake in the Alaska Peninsula – International

He United States Geological Survey (USGS) issued a tsunami alert for some areas of the US state of Alaska after registering this Sunday a 7.4 magnitude earthquake, shallow.

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The quake struck at 10:48 p.m. local time on Saturday (6:48 a.m. GMT on Sunday) about 90 km southwest of the small town of San Point, and at a depth of 21 km on the Alaska Peninsula, the USGS said.

The National Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer, Alaska, said a warning for
tsunami was in effect for southern Alaska and the Alaska Peninsula. “For other US and Canadian Pacific coasts in North America, the tsunami hazard level is being assessed,” it added.

Alaska is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire. It was struck by a magnitude 9.2 earthquake in March 1964, the strongest ever recorded in North America.

That earthquake devastated Anchorage and unleashed a tsunami that hit the Gulf of Alaska, the west coast of the United States, and Hawaii. More than 250 people killed by the earthquake and tsunami.

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