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Magnitude 7.5 quake strikes off Alaska's Aleutians, triggering tsunami advisory

| Updated: October 20, 2020 18:08:13


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A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.5 struck south of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands on Monday, triggering a tsunami warning for the area, the US Geological Survey said.

The US Tsunami Warning Center said the quake, initially reported as a magnitude 7.4, had triggered a tsunami warning for Sand Point, Cold Bay and Kodiak, which are sparsely populated.

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