Major quake strikes off Alaska's Aleutian Islands
WASHINGTON: A substantial 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck on Sunday just off the remote Aleutian Islands of the US state of Alaska, the US Geological Survey reported.
The quake occurred at 3:48 am local time (1348 GMT) about 53 kilometres underground, some 56 kilometres south-southwest of Atka Alaska and 1,828 kilometres from the state's largest city Anchorage, the USGS reported in a preliminary earthquake report.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries from the Aleutians, a sparsely-populated archipelago of hundreds of small, mainly volcanic islands that arc into the northern Pacific Ocean.
The town of Atka nearest the temblor's epicentre had a population of 92 in the 2000 US census. - AFP/de
