An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale shook on Sunday the southern state of Alaska (USA), as recorded the US Geological Survey (USGS).
The quake has left no injuries or major damage, said in a statement the Anchorage Police Department, the main town in Alaska.
A tsunami after the earthquake, something that worried many citizens, given the depth of 127.8 kilometers at which the earthquake occurred, according to the National Weather Service of the United States is expected.
The Chugach Electric Company reported that at least 4,600 users were left without power after the earthquake. The Anchorage area residents awoke at 1:30 am (1030 GMT) by the shock of the earthquake, with its epicenter 261 kilometers from the city and 83 kilometers east of the town of Iliamna, in the "borough" of Lake and Peninsula .
The quake was followed by more than a dozen magnitudes greater than 2.5 aftershocks, the largest of 4.3 occurred 75 kilometers west of the small town of Anchor Point, in the "borough" Kenai Peninsula.
Alaska is politically divided into "boroughs", similar to the rest of the country counties and parishes in Louisiana.