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No tsunami expected for B.C.’s coast after 4.4-magnitude earthquake in Alaska

A tsunami is not expected after a 4.4-magnitude earthquake in Alaska Wednesday.

The U.S. National Weather Service Tsunami Alerts posted to X that the earthquake hit at 7:25 a.m. on Feb. 4. It was originally listed as a 4.3-magnitude quake.

Emergency Info B.C. said there is no tsunami threat to B.C.

The earthquake hit about 92 kilometres west northwest of Anchorage and 885 kilometres west of Whitehorse, Yukon at a depth of 82.3 kilometres.

The U.S. Geological Service says 179 people reported feeling the earthquake.

There were a series of other earthquakes ranging between magnitude 2.5 and 3.9 in and around Alaska on Tuesday and Wednesday.