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Jul. 16—Update: This story has been updated with a new article: 7.2 earthquake off Alaska Peninsula triggers brief tsunami warning, sending some residents to higher ground Update, 12:55 a.m ...
A 7.2 magnitude earthquake triggered a brief tsunami advisory for southern Alaska late Saturday, but the advisory was canceled about an hour later, monitoring bodies reported. The earthquake was ...
Sirens rung out in Kodiak, Alaska, on October 19 after a 7.4 earthquake near Sand Point triggered tsunami warnings.Locals in the city’s tsunami zone were advised to move to higher ground ...
A tsunami warning issued Monday after a 7.5-magnitude earthquake off southern Alaska was downgraded to an advisory by evening. The 12:54 p.m. quake was centered 62 miles southeast of Sand Point ...
The National Tsunami Warning Center (NTWC) is one of two tsunami warning centers in the United States, covering all coastal regions of the United States and Canada, except Hawaii, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Until 2013, it was known as the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center.
NOAA's National Tsunami Warning Center (NTWC) in Palmer, Alaska issues warnings for North America, including Alaska, British Columbia, Oregon, California, the Gulf of Mexico, and the East coast. The PTWC was established in 1949, following the 1946 Aleutian Island earthquake and a tsunami that resulted in 165 casualties on Hawaii and in Alaska ...
The predicted tsunami heights are similar to that of the tsunami from the 1964 Alaska earthquake when it struck the city. [ 4 ] The following year, a report by the U.S. Geological Survey reassessed the tsunami threat posed by the landslide and said that the tsunami 500 m (1,600 ft) offshore Whittier may be slightly over 2 ft (0.61 m) in a worst ...
A tsunami warning for Southern Alaska was lifted two hours after it was issued Saturday night, after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the Alaska Peninsula. The National Weather ...