Magnitude 7.8 earthquake hits near Alaska peninsula: USGS
The quake, with an epicenter at a depth of 10 km (6 miles), prompted the US National Tsunami Warning Center to issue a tsunami warning for the region
Pacific black brant fly past Mount Dutton over the Izembek Lagoon in the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska's Aleutian Islands, in this U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) picture taken November 7, 2008. REUTERS
An earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck off the south-south eastern coast of the Alaskan peninsula on Tuesday, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).
The quake, with an epicenter at a depth of 10 km (6 miles), prompted the US National Tsunami Warning Center to issue a tsunami warning for the region.
The Tsunami Warning Center said tsunami warning was in effect for South Alaska and the Alaska Peninsula, Pacific Coasts from Kennedy Entrance, Alaska to Unimak Pass, Alaska.
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