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00:00All right. Welcome back in here to Live Now from Fox. I'm Aidy Mack. We have a breaking

00:06news situation of a major earthquake off the coast of Alaska that is causing some tsunami

00:14warnings in the area along that coastline up there. As we are following it, you can see the

00:20USGS earthquake saying a notable quake. Preliminary info saying it's above 7, 7.3, just about 87

00:27kilometers south of Sandpoint, Alaska. And this is distributing new potentially tsunami warnings

00:35to the area there in Alaska, off the peninsula of Alaska. So we're following it very closely as it

00:42happened here this Wednesday afternoon. As you can see, the tsunami alert saying a warning,

00:47a tsunami warning posted proportions of Alaska following that earthquake 50 miles south of

00:53Sandpoint, Alaska at 12.30 this afternoon. And we do have this live vantage point right here on Live

01:00Now from Fox of Sitka, Alaska, courtesy of our EarthCAM partners, which is just a little bit

01:06down the coast, not necessarily in the vicinity for this tsunami warning, but you can see some of

01:12those large cruise ships in the distance, potentially some off the coast there that

01:16will have to be aware of what's going on. As the US Geological Survey recorded the earthquake

01:21off Sandpoint, which is located at the center of the Alaska Peninsula, just about 12.30. The National

01:28Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a tsunami warning for the majority of Alaska's

01:33peninsula spanning up into the southernmost part of Alaska's mainland toward Anchorage, a major

01:39earthquake capable of causing, quote, serious damage is considered having a magnitude above 7.

01:45Only about 10 to 15 earthquakes of this caliber are reported each year. So not necessarily rare,

01:53but unusual. Let's take you right now out to our Fox weather team as they're also tracking this here

01:58on Live Now from Fox.

02:01We know right now, so this just happened, I guess that would be what, 29 minutes, the tsunami warning

02:10goes out. The epicenter, it appears, was south of the Aleutians. You've got Kodiak, which you don't get the

02:17scope of this when you're looking at the map of Alaska. I lived in Kodiak for a summer. That was back in

02:232007. Kodiak is the size of Maine, and it only has the village, which I believe is short of 3,000 people.

02:30There was Homer, as we mentioned, and then down the Aleutians. So we'll have to see, we've been through this,

02:36what kind of earthquake this was, how we saw some of the plates move, and the seabed, and whether or not this

02:45produces a tsunami. We'll work to get more information on that from the Tsunami Warning Center as it comes in.

02:52That's just plain.

02:53All right, just looking into our Fox weather team as they're discussing this. Again, a live look courtesy of our EarthCAM

02:58partners at Sitka, Alaska, really between Anchorage and Seattle, if you're kind of familiar with this.

03:05So this is not in the area where they're concerned about that tsunami warning, but right there off the

03:11coast, you can imagine concern as this major earthquake was reported. USGS, again, on social

03:18media, initial preliminary information, 7.3, some 50 miles south of Sandpoint, if you're familiar, kind of

03:26off that peninsula there in Alaska. So this is considered a major earthquake and potential for

03:34tsunami implications right there along the coast. And it's kind of difficult to understand how big,

03:42how long that peninsula is off the coast there in Alaska. So we're following it closely. We'll see

03:48if we have any updates. We'll keep an eye on all of these cameras here as soon as they pop up. But

03:53we're going to follow that very closely here on Live Now from Fox. All right, let's just shift gears here

03:58back to the mid.

03:59We'll be right back to the mid.

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