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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 powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake has triggered a tsunami warning along a 700-mile stretch of Alaska's southern coast, prompting communities to order residents to higher ground. The tremor struck at 12:37 p.m. local time, just south of Sand Point ...
Ground shaking was strongest in Sand Point, with reports of "objects flying out of the pantry and off of shelves," noted the Alaska Earthquake Center.
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.