A major 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Alaska’s Aleutian Islands early Friday, triggering a tsunami warning for the remote region, the US Geological Survey reported.
The quake occurred at 1:55 am (1055 GMT) at a depth of 33 miles (35 kilometers), some 80 miles (130 kilometers) from the town of Dutch Harbor, one of several spots in the Pacific island chain that host commercial fishing operations.
The epicenter was some 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) from the state’s largest city Anchorage, USGS added.
The temblor triggered an alert by the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center, which said a tsunami warning was in effect for parts of coastal Alaska, but that “a widespread destructive tsunami threat does not exist.”
