 |
| 1964 Alaska earthquake (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
 |
| A 2x6 plank driven through a ten-ply tire by the tsunami in Whittier. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
 |
| English: Damage to Fourth Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska, caused by the Good Friday Earthquake. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
People gather at Sitka High School early Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013, in Sitka, Alaska, following a magnitude 7.5 earthquake and after a subsequent tsunami warning was declared for hundreds of miles of Alaskan and Canadian coastline. The alert was canceled when no damaging waves were generated.
Earlier a powerful earthquake sparked a tsunami warning for hundreds of miles of Alaskan and Canadian coastline, but the alert was canceled when no damaging waves were generated. A magnitude 7.5-magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of Alaska at about 4 a.m. EST time generated a tsunami, but the monster wave posed no threat to land, according to officials. Tsunami warnings were issued for parts of Alaska and Canada shortly after the earthquake struck about 60 miles west of Craig, Alaska, but were canceled after the Alaska Tsunami Warning Center.
