{"id":1974323,"date":"2023-07-16T08:57:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T12:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/earthquake-off-the-alaska-coast-triggers-brief-tsunami-advisory-sending-some-residents-to-shelters\/"},"modified":"2023-07-16T08:59:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T12:59:07","slug":"earthquake-off-the-alaska-coast-triggers-brief-tsunami-advisory-sending-some-residents-to-shelters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/earthquake-off-the-alaska-coast-triggers-brief-tsunami-advisory-sending-some-residents-to-shelters\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska coast earthquake prompts tsunami advisory, residents seek shelter."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fearthquake-off-the-alaska-coast-triggers-brief-tsunami-advisory-sending-some-residents-to-shelters%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1974323&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A 7.2 \u2062Magnitude Earthquake \u2063Triggers Tsunami\u200d Advisory in \u200dSouthern Alaska<\/h2>\n<p>A \u2062powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck southern Alaska late Saturday,\u200c causing\u2064 a \u200dbrief <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tsunami-advisory-issued-for-west-coast-hawaii-alaska-after-volcano-erupts-in-tonga\/\" title=\"Tsunami Advisory Issued for West Coast, Hawaii, Alaska After Volcano Erupts in Tonga\">tsunami advisory<\/a> \u2062that \u2064sent residents into\u2064 a state of alert. \u200cHowever,\u2064 the advisory was later canceled,\u2062 bringing \u200crelief to \u2062the affected \u200bareas.<\/p>\n<p>The \ud834\udd7aearthquake, which \u200boriginated 106 kilometers south of \u200dSand\u2062 Point, Alaska, was felt across \u2064the\u2064 Aleutian Islands, the\u2063 Alaskan \u2064Peninsula,\ud834\udd7a and \u2064Cook Inlet \u200dregions. \u2062Videos\u2063 posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/earthquake-off-the-alaska-coast-triggers-brief-tsunami-advisory-sending-some-residents-to-shelters\/\" title=\"Alaska coast earthquake prompts tsunami advisory, residents seek shelter.\">social media\u200b showed sirens\ud834\udd7a blaring<\/a> in Kodiak,\u2064 Alaska,\u200d warning residents of\u2064 a potential tsunami.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200dUnited\u200d States \u2062Geological Survey \ud834\udd7ainitially reported the earthquake as a 7.4 magnitude but later downgraded \u200cit to\u2064 7.2. The U.S.\u2064 National Weather Service \u2063issued \u200da tsunami\ud834\udd7a advisory, stating that the quake occurred at a depth of 13\u200b miles. \u200dHowever, the advisory was canceled within an hour of\u2064 its issuance.<\/p>\n<h3>Impacts\u2064 and Aftermath<\/h3>\n<p>While\u200b the\u2063 tsunami \u200dadvisory covered coastal Alaska\u200d from Chignik \u200dBay to \u200dUnimak Pass, Kodiak Island and the\ud834\udd7a Kenai\u200c Peninsula\u200d were \u2063not expected \u2063to\u200b be affected, according to\u200c the \u200dNational \u2063Weather\u2064 Service\ud834\udd7a in Anchorage. The\ud834\udd7a Hawaii Emergency Management \u200bAgency also confirmed\u2063 that there was\u200b no threat \u2062to the\u2064 islands.<\/p>\n<p>Following \u200bthe earthquake,\u200c there were\u200d several \u200caftershocks in the\u2063 same area, including one measuring 5.0 \u200cmagnitude. \u2064Local\u2064 emergency\u200d officials\u2063 advised residents not to reoccupy\u200b hazard\u2062 zones \u200cwithout proper \u2063clearance.<\/p>\n<p>Although small sea \u200clevel changes were \u2063still\ud834\udd7a possible, \ud834\udd7athe\u2063 situation quickly returned \u200dto normal. Alaska, being \u200cthe\u200d most\u2063 seismically active \u200cstate \ud834\udd7ain\ud834\udd7a the U.S., experiences \u200cnumerous earthquakes each\u200d year. In fact,\u200d it\u200d is home to \ud834\udd7athe\u2063 second-largest \u2064earthquake ever\u200d recorded, a magnitude \ud834\udd7a9.2 quake in 1964.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/japan-residents-speak-on-magnitude-7-3-earthquake\/\" title=\"Japan residents speak on magnitude 7.3 earthquake\">recent earthquake occurred<\/a> in \u2063the \u2062same region as several other significant\u200d earthquakes in\u200c the past \u200dfew years, according to\u200d the \u2064Alaska Earthquake \u2062Center. \ud834\udd7aIn \ud834\udd7aa \u2063tweet, \u200cthe\u2062 center noted that the once \u2062quiet &#8220;Shumagin Gap&#8221; \u2062is no \u200blonger \u200bquiet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 7.2 magnitude earthquake in southern Alaska led to a short tsunami advisory, which was later canceled. The quake was felt across the Aleutian Islands, Alaskan Peninsula, and Cook Inlet regions. Sirens in Kodiak, Alaska alerted residents. Monitoring bodies reported the incident, as per the Alaska Earthquake Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1974324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1974323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1974323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1974324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1974323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1974323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1974323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}