An earthquake of magnitude 7.4 was felt at the Alaskan peninsula.
The depth was about 13 miles and the epicenter was in the ocean.
Following the earthquake, the US twunami warning system has issued a tsunami warning.
However, the Australian Met bureau has releated a statement saying that there is no tsunami threat to Australia.
Since the earthquake happened only 90 minutes ago, we are not in a position to report whether the tsunami progressed as forecast by the warning system (image above).
Update: The tsunami warning has now been cancelled (2245 hours IST).
All images from respective government organisations.
Iceland too
On July 12, Iceland also experienced a series of earthquakes, followed by a volcanic eruption near the main airport of Iceland.
On Wednesday morning (April 3), about 7:58 am local time, Taiwan experienced an earthquake. The quake measured 7.4 on the Richter scale. The quake was centered in the Hualien County on the East coast of Taiwan. A tsunami warning was issued for Japan but the tsunami was not experienced. Rescue…
Inputs by Samyukta Mallick On March 16th, an earthquake of magnitude 7.1 occurred in the Karmadec Islands region of New Zealand. These islands are towards the North of New Zealand (map given above is a screen grab from Google Maps and may not be accurate). The depth of the earthquake…
Report by Yashasvi Anika Tandon An earthquake struck Afghanistan on Wednesday, 22nd, June 2022. The earthquake struck the Eastern to the South-Western region of Afghanistan. The magnitude of the earthquake was 5.9. The depth of the earthquake was 10 km or 6.2 miles and the epicentre was Paktika province. The…
