Magnitude-6.2 earthquake rocks Alaskan Peninsula

Magnitude-6.2 earthquake rocks Alaskan Peninsula

Magnitude-6.2 earthquake rocks Alaskan Peninsula, A able convulsion addled backward Friday black on the Alaskan Peninsula.

The magnitude-6.2 convulsion occurred at 9:50 p.m. bounded time Friday (1:50 a.m. Saturday EDT) 62 afar north-northeast of Chignik Lake, Alaska, the United States Geological Survey reported. The antecedent consequence was listed at 6.4.

There were no actual letters of injuries or damage.

The epicenter is aswell 13 afar northeast of Aniakchak Crater, according to the Alaska Convulsion Centermost at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

No tsunami was accepted as a aftereffect of the earthquake, the U.S. National Tsunami Warning Centermost said.

The convulsion was acquainted as far abroad as Dillingham, Alaska, the Alaska centermost said. Two ample aftershocks occurred aural 10 account of the antecedent quake.

Aniakchak Crater is allotment of the Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve, the website of a 3,500-year-old agitable caldera.

The earthquakes at the caldera chase the access of Mount Pavlof, southwest of the Aniakchak Crater, on March 27.

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