There is no danger of a tsunami for Hawaii after the Alaska earthquake

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The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no danger of a tsunami in Hawaii after the Alaska quake Saturday night.

The magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurred at approximately 8:48 p.m. Hawaiian time on the Alaskan Peninsula.

The quake triggered a brief tsunami warning for southern Alaska late Saturday, but the warning was lifted about an hour later, monitoring agencies said.

The quake was widely felt throughout the Aleutian Islands, Alaska Peninsula and Cook Inlet regions, according to the Alaska Earthquake Center.

In Kodiak, Alaska, sirens warned of a possible tsunami and sent people driving to shelters late at night, according to video posted on social media.

The USGS wrote in a social media post that the quake occurred 65.8 miles south of Sand Point, Alaska. The earthquake was initially reported with a magnitude of 7.4 but it was downgraded to a magnitude of 7.2.

The National Weather Service issued a tsunami warning, saying the quake occurred at a depth of 13 miles. The agency called off the alert about an hour after the first alert.

Prior to the cancellation, the National Weather Service in Anchorage tweeted that a tsunami warning applied to coastal Alaska from Chinic Bay to Unimac Pass, but Kodiak Island and the Kenai Peninsula were not expected to be affected.

The Hawaiian Emergency Management Agency said shortly after the quake that there was no threat to the islands.

KTUU-TV reported that there were several aftershocks in the same area of ​​Alaska, including 5.0-magnitude tremors within three minutes of the original quake.

Residents have been advised not to reoccupy dangerous areas without authorization from local emergency officials, KTUU said.

KTUU reports that small changes in sea level are still possible.

Alaska experiences thousands of earthquakes each year, most of them too deep and too small to be felt. It is the most seismically active state in the United States and the site of the second largest earthquake ever recorded, according to the Alaska Earthquake Center. In 1964, a 9.2-magnitude earthquake in Prince William Sound caused severe damage throughout south-central Alaska.

The center said via Twitter that the quake occurred late Saturday in the same region where several other magnitude-7 earthquakes have occurred in the past few years.

The once quiet “Shumagin Gap” is not so quiet anymore! Tweet said.

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