Posted at 11:29 a.m., Wednesday, August 15, 2007
No tsunami expected from Alaska quake
Advertiser Staff
A moderately strong earthquake occurred in Alaskan ocean waters at 10:22 a.m. today Hawai'i time, according to the United States Geographic Survey.While destructive tsunamis generated by earthquakes in Alaska have reached Hawai'i shores in the past, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in 'Ewa Beach issued an advisory shortly after today's quake saying no widespread tsunami threat exists based on historical earthquake and tsunami data.
The quake's epicenter was approximately 13.2 miles beneath the ocean's surface and nearly 100 miles south-southwest of Adak, Alaska, and about 1,300 miles west-southwest of Anchorage, according to the center.
The USGS assigned a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 to the temblor.
