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Magnitude-7.7 earthquake strikes between Russia and Alaska

A major earthquake struck between Russia and Alaska on Monday night.

It was measured at magnitude-7.4 before being upgraded to magnitude-7.7, which is the second largest earthquake measured around the globe this year.


The earthquake was powerful enough to trigger a tsunami warning for some coastal cities in Alaska and Russia.

The risk level for the B.C. coast was evaluated and no tsunami warning was issued.

Monday night’s earthquake was the rest of transform faulting on or near the plate boundary between the Pacific and North American plates.


It’s the largest incident along these two plates since a magnitude-7.8 earthquake that occurred all the way back on December 17th, 1929.

A magnitude-6.2 foreshock preceded the earthquake on Monday morning and there were 10 aftershocks of magnitude-4.4 or more that were measured as well.



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