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Alaska earthquake today: Six hit Alaska within minutes – Anchorage braces for HUGE tremor

Express   21 February 2019   Alaska  

ALASKA has been struck by six earthquakes within only minutes on Thursday, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS), sparking fears of bigger tremors shaking the US state in the near future.

Six earthquakes rocked the ground across Alaska this morning. The quakes hit between 6.45am and 6.57am GMT. The strength of the earthquakes varied from magnitude 2.6 to 3.5. The strongest quake, a magnitude 3.5 hit is the latest to hit the US state, some 41 miles south-southwest of Kobuk, a city in the Northwest Arctic Borough of Alaska.

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Alaska has been subject to earthquakes for years (Image: Getty)
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