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1st LD Writethru: Magnitude-6.3 earthquake strikes off Alaska

Xinhua, March 13, 2016 Adjust font size:

A strong earthquake struck off Saturday Atka Island in southwest Alaska, the northern most U.S. state.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said the tremor, with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4, hit about 32 km deep at 8:06 local time, some 65 km off Atka in the Andreanof Islands, or 1,815 km west of Anchorage, the biggest city of Alaska.

Andreanof Islands are part of the Aleutian Islands.

There has been no reports of injuries from the sparsely populated islands.

The U.S. Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii said the quake was not strong enough to generate a tsunami. Endit