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Wednesday’s magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands chain struck in a region that has experienced a handful of ...
Emergency response officials activated the Wireless Emergency Alerts system at 10:53 p.m. on July 15, 2023, to announce a tsunami warning on mobile phones in the red zones on this map -- but the ...
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Confusion around an emergency alert received by Alaska residents in areas not at risk of a potential tsunami after a major weekend earthquake could shake public ...
Others worry that the confusion around whether the tsunami posed actual danger could erode the public’s trust of a critical emergency warning system. Sections ...
A powerful magnitude 7.8 earthquake rattled a large swath of coastal Alaska late Tuesday, triggered a tsunami warning that sent residents fleeing before it was called off.
Tsunami advisories were earlier issued for Japan, Hawaii, Alaska and the U.S. Pacific coast. The U.S. Geological Survey estimated the eruption caused the equivalent of a magnitude 5.8 earthquake.
A magnitude 7.5 earthquake prompted a tsunami warning Monday for a nearly thousand-mile stretch of Alaska’s southern coast, with waves over 2 feet at the nearest community as the threat subsided ...