A tsunami warning is in effect for coastal areas of Cook Inlet and southern Kenai Peninsula in Alaska after a magnitude 6.7 quake Friday, according to a bulletin from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The quake also knocked CNN affiliate KTUU off the air. Items fell from shelves at the station, news director Tracy Sabo told CNN’s Sara Finch.
“It was absolutely terrifying,” Kristin Dossett, a resident of Palmer, Alaska, told CNN.
She said it was the most violent quake she felt in her 37 years there. One aftershock caused her piano to move a foot and half from the wall.
“It shook like I have never felt anything shake before. It just didn’t stop. It kept going and got louder and louder, and things just fell everywhere — everything off my dressers, off my bookcases, my kitchen cupboard. Just broken glass everywhere.”
Gov. Bill Walker issued a disaster declaration, according to a post on his Facebook page.
There were no reports of fatalities or injuries so far.
The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District said all district students were safe.
The US Geological Survey has reported at least eight aftershocks following the first quake. The largest, registering 5.7, was located in the city of Anchorage.
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The Anchorage Office of Emergency Management urged residents to shelter in place.
“I could tell this was bigger than anything I’d been in before, and it wasn’t going to stop,” resident Philip Peterson said.
