Magnitude 7.8 eartquake strikes US

A magnitude 7.8 quake hit the Alaska Peninsula on Tuesday night, Report says.
The United States Geological Survey detected the quake at 11:12 p.m. with an epicenter 61.3 miles southeast of Perryville, Alaska. With a magnitude of 7.8 and depth of 6.22 miles, this quake could be felt far beyond the epicenter and is potentially disastrous.
Over the last seven days, there has been one other earthquake above magnitude 3.0 within 100 miles of this area.