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7.2 earthquake strikes Alaska's Aleutian Islands

No immediate reports of damages or injuries

The Associated Press

8:51 AM EST, December 19, 2007

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A large earthquake rattled Alaska's
seismically active Aleutian Islands, but there were no immediate reports of any
damages or injuries.

The magnitude-7.2 quake struck at 11:30 p.m. Tuesday
and was centered about 125 miles west of Adak in the island chain, according to
a preliminary report by the U.S. Geological Survey.

A dispatcher with the
Anchorage Police Department said he didn't feel the quake, some 1,300 miles
away, and there were no reports of any injuries or damages.

The Aleutian Islands are a chain of more than 300 islands that
extend southwestward from Alaska into the northern Pacific Ocean.

A
separate earthquake of magnitude-4.0 shook the San Bernardino Mountains resort
town of Big Bear City early today about 100 miles east of Los Angeles. There
were no reports of any damages or injuries from the quake, which struck shortly
before 4:15 a.m., a dispatcher with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's
Department said.

A tsunami warning was canceled early today for Alaska's
coasts after officials determined waves from the earthquake posed no widespread
destructive threat.

The earth's most active seismic feature, the
circum-Pacific seismic belt, brushes Alaska and the Aleutian Islands, where more
earthquakes occur than in the other 49 States combined.

The Andreanof
Island sustained a magnitude 8.8 earthquake in March 1957 that caused very
severe damage on Adak and Unimak Islands. A damaging tsunami was generated, and
a wall of water 40 feet high smashed the coastline of Scotch Cap on Unimak
Island. Sand Bay, near Adak, reported 26-foot waves inundated its shores.

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