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**LIVE UPDATES** Alaska Rocked After Major Earthquake Hits Near Anchorage

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**Follow all of the events on the Breitbart News Live Wire below. All times in eastern.** 3:26 PM — The Alaska Railroad has suspended all…
**Follow all of the events on the Breitbart News Live Wire below. All times in eastern.**
3:26 PM — The Alaska Railroad has suspended all operations amid “severe” damage at their Anchorage Operations Center and unknown track conditions throughout the state.
External Affairs Manager Tim Sullivan says the operations center lost power and is experiencing flooding following the quake Friday that rocked Anchorage and surrounding areas.
He says: “It’s tough to run trains when you have no dispatch.”
Sullivan says no reports of track damage have yet been reported, but it will take a day or two for staff to fully assess conditions. Until the tracks are cleared for use, all railroad operations will are suspended, Sullivan said.
The quake was felt 350 miles away in Fairbanks.
3:22 PM —
3:20 PM —
3:19 PM — President Donald Trump issues a statement regarding the earthquake:
3:14 PM — Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) issues a statement on the earthquake:
3:09 PM —
3:08 PM — The Earthquake left a grocery store in shambles.
3:06 PM — Audio of air traffic controllers at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport urging pilots to fly around after earthquake hit Anchorage.
3:02 PM — The Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage says it has canceled elective surgeries and that the hospital experienced multiple water leaks, according to the Associated Press.
The hospital says in a statement that there was not a large influx of patients after the quake rocked Anchorage Tuesday morning.
There were no reports of serious injuries or deaths and there were no reports of injuries at the hospital.
3:00 PM — The operators of the 800-mile long trans-Alaska pipeline said they shut the system down as a precaution following the earthquake in southcentral Alaska, the Associated Press reports.

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