A powerful earthquake located off Alaska's southern coast jolted some coastal communities late Tuesday, and some residents briefly scrambled for higher ground over fears of a tsunami.
There were no immediate reports of damage in the sparsely populated area of the state, and tsunami warning was cancelled after the magnitude 7.8 quake off the Alaska Peninsula produced a wave of a less than a foot.
However, that doesn't mean they slept through it: West said residents in small towns within a hundred miles of the quake reported very strong shaking, and was also felt more than 500 miles away in the Anchorage area, West said. "We've got a high school full of people," said Larry LeDoux, superintendent of the Kodiak School District. "I've been passing out masks since the first siren sounded," he told the Daily News.
"I might have expected a little bit more water, but I'm happy that there wasn't," said David Hale, the senior duty scientist at the tsunami centre.
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