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Friday, Oct 7, 2011 photo shows a trumpeter swan as it touches down in a pond at Potter Marsh in Anchorage, Alaska. Southcentral Alaska sees plenty of visitors, but few draw local paparazzi like the guests that fly south every October: trumpeter and tundra swans. (AP)
A strong earthquake has struck in a remote region off the coast of Alaska, but officials say there is no tsunami threat or immediate report of damage.
The U.S. Geological Survey was quoted by Associated Press as saying the magnitude-6.7 quake struck at 9 p.m. Thursday and was centered in the ocean about 35 miles beneath the seabed and some 400 miles southwest of Anchorage a remote and lightly populated Aleutian Island region.
Officials say the temblor was felt on the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island, more than 100 miles away, but there are no immediate reports of damage.
The police dispatch office in Kodiak says that the temblor was felt at the station, but they have had no reports of any problems.
The National Tsunami Warning Center says there is no tsunami danger
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