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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Communities along a 700-mile stretch of Alaska’s southern coast ordered residents to higher ground after a powerful offshore earthquake Wednesday, but officials quickly downgraded and then canceled a tsunami warning for the region. There were no reports of significant damage..
The quake that struck Alaska’s southern coast on Wednesday, July 16 is part of a larger sequence that may continue to unfold in destructive ways.
A massive 7.3 earthquake rattled coastal southwestern Alaska on Tuesday, sending a jolt through homes along coastal towns and even generating a small tsunami.
Calling it an exercise in imagination, seismologist Carl Tape stopped at the site of Dome City and the former townsite of Meehan 113 years after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck the area.
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Extra.ie on MSNScientists make ominous prediction about ‘doomsday’ mega tsunamiScientists in the US have said that a 100-foot ‘doomsday’ mega tsunami could wipe out the entire western seaboard. The wave could come from the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which is a 700-mile fault line from northern California in the USA to British Columbia in Canada that has laid dormant for 300 years.