Strong Earthquake Shakes Alaska, No Tsunami Warning

The National Tsunami Warning Center said no watch, warning or advisory issued for the earthquake.

The epicenter of the earthquake was 58 miles below the surface, reported by the Alaska Earthquake Center.

Washington: A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.2 shook a remote sparsely populated region of southwestern Alaska Friday night, the US Geological Survey which monitors earthquakes worldwide reported.

The quake occurred at 0550 GMT Saturday (21:50 Friday) at the bow of the Aleutian about 654 kilometers (406 miles) southwest of Anchorage, and 100 kilometers (62 miles) northeast of Chignik Lake, Alaska.

The National Tsunami Warning Center said no watch, warning or advisory issued by the earthquake.

"A tsunami is not expected to be generated by this earthquake," said the Center.

The earthquake's epicenter was 58 miles below the surface, reported the Alaska Earthquake Center.

The arc of the Aleutians, which is part of the Ring of Fire seismically active Pacific, about 3,000 kilometers from the Gulf of Alaska extends to the Russian peninsula of Kamchatka.

The arc "marks the region where the partial channels of the Pacific plate in the mantle under the North American plate, "the USGS said on its website.