Earthquake Alaska came to Kamchatka

Echoes occurred off the coast of Alaska earthquake was felt by the inhabitants of the Far East. Kamchatka "shook" on 2 points, in the moment of danger for the region not.

Earthquake of magnitude 8 points shook the Aleutian Islands. The Pacific tsunami center has warned against powerful waves on the West coast of the United States and Canada. Echo earthquake felt in Russia, in Kamchatka. To the utter joy, there tremors were not too noticeable, warnings about the coming tsunami was not.

According to the statement of the head of the Sakhalin tsunami center Tatiana Nevelskoy, earthquake does not bear the risk of the Pacific coast of Russia. Ivelskaya told about that after such a strong tectonic cataclysms on the Aleuts in the area Krysa Islands originated wave height not more than 15 see the Hearth of tectonic cataclysms lies at a depth of about 100 km beneath the seabed, tells ITAR-TASS.

Geological service United States has registered 8 repeated earthquakes, 6 of them with a magnitude of 5.5 to 6. According to reliable information of a seismic station "Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin and Kuril Islands of the Aleutian earthquake was not felt.

Earlier, on June 23, an earthquake of magnitude 7 and 2.10 it was noticed North coast of New Zealand. Epicenter tremors was in 128 km South-East of the island Raul, earthquake on depth of 5 km below the seabed.

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