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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14912651/tsunami-warning-earthquake-coast-alaska.html
Thousands of Americans along Alaska's coastline raced to
higher ground on Wednesday, abandoning their homes after
a major earthquake triggered a tsunami warning.
The US Geological Survey (USGS) detected a 7.3 magnitude
at approximately 12:38pm local time (4:30pm ET), centered
in the Pacific Ocean just south of the Alaska Peninsula
near the Shumagin Islands, southeast of Sand Point.
Sirens wailed and emergency alerts lit up phones across
the region
. . .
Sounds like Alaska has a better public warning system
than Texas ....
Anyway, initial fears proved unnecessary, no large
wave was generated even though the quake was big
enough. Certain exact movements of the sea floor
are necessary to create a tsunami, and that didn't
happen this time.
Alaska is along the northern edge of the Pacific
"rim of fire", very geologically active. There are
also at least two volcanoes, one kind of too near
Anchorage, that have come to life again.
I'd been mentioning it for a while now, the "ring
of fire" as a whole seems to be heating up lately.
More volcanoes and quakes, remember that gigantic
explosion a couple years ago in the Pacific, more
activity around Indonesia. Note that Indonesia has
been the source of some spectacular, climate-
altering, eruptions over the past 1000+ years.
There's also an underwater eruption about to start
not too far off the coast of Oregon, but it will
likely not be explosive. Could boil a billion
fish however ...
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