Tsunami threat was reduced to “advice” after 7.3 quakes along the Aleuten

Anchorage, Alaska (Ktuu) -a Tsunami warning that was reduced to an “advisory” status for parts of SouthCentral and Southwest Alaska on Wednesday due to a large earthquake along the Aleuten chain.

The tremors met at 12:37 p.m. in Alaska and triggered the warning, but was reduced to advice at 1:50 p.m.

Dave Snider, a Tsunami Warn coordinator at the National Tsunami Warning Center, said the areas that could now be affected are Cold Bay for Kodiak and Sand Point, but he says that the quake has taken place in flat water, so that they “do not expect a large event”.

But there is still a threat, so Snider says that they stay away from the beach or water.

The quake was measured in size 7.3 with an epicenter near Sandpunkt along the Aleuten, about 83 miles southeast of King Cove.

It was originally reported that the Tsunami effects according to the available data may have been used by 40 miles southwest of Homer.

Ebbe in Kachemak Bay, which surrounds the Homer area, was listed on Wednesday at around 1 p.m., which could help relieve the effects of larger waves.

The Homer Police Department has posted on its Facebook page that the residents of the Kennedy entrance -are recommended to drive the waterway between the Kenai -Headinsula and Kodiak Island -to the Unimak pass on higher soil.

Later, the Mayor of Homer told Alaska's news source that the city “received an all -clear area for the Homer area from the coast guard and state homeland security”.

A warning from the Anchorage Office of Emergency Management showed that there was no immediate danger to anchoring.

The US Tsunami warning center issued a warning message in which the extent of the Aleuten on the banks of the cooking intake through the Kenai peninsula, but not along Turnagain arm or areas further north.

Debi Schmidt, the city administrator of Sand Point, said Alaska's news source less than an hour after the earthquake that it was the “biggest” she has ever felt.

“I was at home for lunch and the house was trembling and things fell and cupboard doors were opened,” she said. “No damage.”

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