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 tsunami ...

An Alaska tsunami warning had residents scrambling for high ground after 7.3 magnitude earthquake The quake was felt as far away as Anchorage, almost 600 miles to the northeast.

Dave Snider, Warning Coordinator with the Tsunami Warning Center, says Alaska got lucky after the magnitude 8.8 earthquake ...