14 DAY TRIAL // This past Friday, August 30, an earthquake hit Alaska's Aleutian Islands. Preliminary information released by the USGS says that the quake's magnitude was one of 7.0.
It struck at a depth of 33.5 kilometers (20.8 miles), and at a distance of 94 kilometers (58 miles) southeast of the city of Adak.
Decode Science tells us that the shake occurred in the early hours of the morning, at about 4.30 a.m. local time. It lasted for roughly a minute and was followed by several aftershocks.
For the time being, no damages and injuries have been reported. What's more, specialists working at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center have not issued a tsunami warning.
By the looks of it, this earthquake was the largest to hit Alaska since June 2011, when the state was struck by a M7.3 shake.