A tsunami warning was triggered Monday in Alaska following a 7.5 magnitude earthquake off the coast of this American state, announced the American Institute of Geophysics (USGS).
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The tremor, initially rated at 7.4, was recorded 91 km southeast of Sand Point, in the Aleutian Islands in the Bering Sea, about 40 km deep, the USGS said.
The tsunami alert concerns the south coast of the state as well as the Alaska Peninsula but spares Anchorage, the largest city in the state, located nearly a thousand kilometers from the epicenter.
No information on possible casualties or damage was available immediately after the shock.