The giant earthquake was recorded at 12:37 p.m. local time, southeast of Sand Point, a community located on Popof Island in the Aleutian Chain.

ToplineA tsunami advisory was lifted Wednesday afternoon for a portion of the Alaskan Peninsula coastline following a 7.3 magnitude earthquake that shook 50 miles off its coast, after the National Weather Service initially issued a tsunami warning,

Communities along a 700-mile stretch of Alaska’s southern coast ordered their residents to higher ground after a powerful earthquake, but officials quickly downgraded and then canceled a