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Alaska earthquake and tsunami warning

A strong earthquake of magnitude 7.4 shook the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, more than 1,600 miles west of Anchorage, Alaska, which led the authorities to raise the risk of a tsunami alert in the Aleutian Islands.

The movement of earth caused no damage and the alarm lasted an hour, apply to about 1,300 kilometers, reaching a tsunami wave record of 6 inches Nikolski, one of the Aegean islands as legatto Becki said spokesman Warning Center Tsunamis on the West Coast and Alaska in Palmer, Alaska, quoted by Reuters.

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