Abstract
THE United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, in co–operation with Science Service and the Jesuit Seismological Association, has determined the provisional epicentre of the earthquake of July 30, 1941, which took place at 1 h. 51.5 m. U.T. This was at latitude 60.9° N., 149.2° W. which is very near the railway between Seward and Anchorage, Alaska, and about midway between these two places. It is not known whether or not there was any damage due to the earthquake. Alaska and the Aleutian Islands form part of the circum–Pacific ring of instability, around which earthquakes and tremors are fairly frequent. Recently earthquakes have been very frequent among the Aleutian Islands, and what was probably the most notable earthquake of recent years on the mainland occurred on April 26, 1933, to the north–west of the Kenai Peninsular. (NATURE, May 27, 1933, p. 757.)
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Earthquake in Alaska. Nature 148, 561 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148561c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/148561c0