Tsunami advisory canceled
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A tsunami warning has been canceled for south Alaska a couple of hours after a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck on Wednesday. Follow Newsweek's live blog.
Wednesday’s magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska's Aleutian Islands chain struck in a region that has experienced a handful of powerful quakes within the last five years — including one that shook communities almost exactly two years earlier.
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.