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By The Canadian Press

Tsunami Danger

B.C. officials assessing risk of tsunami after 7.5-magnitude quake off Alaska

Oct 19, 2020 | 3:54 PM

VICTORIA — The British Columbia government says it’s assessing whether there’s any tsunami risk to the province after a 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the Alaska Peninsula today.

Emergency Information B.C. says in a tweet its threat assessment is in progress.

The National Tsunami Warning Center in the United States issued tsunami warnings for a swath of communities following the quake off Sand Point, Alaska.

It says the quake was centred 92 kilometres southeast of Sand Point at a depth of 40 kilometres.

The Alaska Earthquake Center said the quake was widely felt in communities along the southern coast, including Sand Point, Chignik, Unalaska and the Kenai Peninsula.

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It said a magnitude 5.2 aftershock was reported 11 minutes later, centred roughly in the same area.