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Wednesday’s magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska's Aleutian Islands chain struck in a region that has experienced a handful of powerful quakes within the last five years — including one that shook communities almost exactly two years earlier.
The quake that struck Alaska’s southern coast on Wednesday, July 16 is part of a larger sequence that may continue to unfold in destructive ways.
Calling it an exercise in imagination, seismologist Carl Tape stopped at the site of Dome City and the former townsite of Meehan 113 years after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck the area.