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A26 U.S. NEWS
Thursday 23 July 2020
Powerful quake shakes Alaska towns, creates small tsunami

Associated Press "I might have expected a
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) little bit more water, but I'm
— A powerful earthquake happy that there wasn't,"
off Alaska's southern coast said David Hale, the senior
shook sparsely populated duty scientist at the tsunami
coastal communities late center.
Tuesday and prompted Tuesday's quake was more
some residents to briefly powerful than the magni-
flee to higher ground be- tude 7.1 earthquake that
cause of tsunami fears. caused damage in the An-
There were no immediate chorage area in November
reports of damage in the 2018.
Alaska Peninsula and the "This earthquake released
tsunami warning was can- about 15 times as much
celed after the magnitude energy as that earthquake,
7.8 quake offshore created said West, the state seismol-
a wave of a less than a foot ogist.
(30 centimeters). More than a dozen after-
The earthquake struck shocks of magnitude 4.0 or
Tuesday at 10:12 p.m. local higher were reported im-
time and was centered in mediately after the earth-
waters 65 miles (105 kilome- quake, he said from the
ters) south-southeast of the Homer High School Principal Douglas Waclawski, left, stands at the entrance to the local high school Alaska Earthquake Center
tiny community of Perryville, while residents show up in search of higher ground in the early morning hours of Wednesday, July at the University of Alaska
at a depth of 17 miles (28 22, 2020 in Homer, Alaska, after a powerful earthquake shook the region late Tuesday evening. Fairbanks.
km), according to the U.S. Associated Press "We got people here who
Geological Survey. are going be working all
Residents in some small quake was centered, the Cobban Knagin took video Chief Petty Officer Timo- night," West said. "These
towns within a hundred local high school and the of the parking lot scene at thy Daugherty made sure aftershocks will go and go
miles (160 kilometers) of the Catholic church opened Kodiak Aleutian Regional the 18 officers he oversees and go and go."
quake reported very strong their doors for evacuees High School, where 300 were OK. The earthquake happened
shaking and some shaking and the school parking lot or 400 other people were "The last thing you want to in the so-called Alaska-
was felt more than more was declared a safe zone, sheltering. do is work on getting the Aleutian Trench, where a
than 500 miles (805 kilome- with some people staying By Wednesday morning, aircraft in the air as a tsuna- magnitude 9.2 quake in
ters) away in the Anchor- in their cars with pets until it she was ready to take part mi hits," he said. "It's a great 1964 was centered.
age area, said Michael was safe to go home. in the intense "Adjust Your drill and great practice to That remains the second
West, Alaska state seismol- "No reports of any dam- Altitude Challenge" hike in prepare for when we might most powerful earthquake
ogist. age," said Kodiak police Kodiak, the last in a series. need to conduct rescues ever recorded globally. The
The tsunami warning Sgt. Mike Sorter. "No injuries "We adjust quickly here. Life resulting from an earth- temblor and ensuing tsu-
prompted coastal residents were reported. Everything is back to normal," she said quake and tsunami." nami caused widespread
to evacuate to higher is nominal." in a Facebook message Officials at the National damage and killed 131
ground, with social media Such tsunami warnings are before heading out to Pyr- Tsunami Warning Center in people, some as far away
posts showing long lines of commonplace in Alaska amid Mountain with friends. Palmer, Alaska, began call- as Oregon and California.
people fleeing towns like coastal communities, simi- At the U.S. Coast Guard ing off the tsunami adviso- Alaska is the most actively
Homer and Kodiak as tsu- lar to tornado warnings base in Kodiak, officials ries and warnings after a seismic U.S. state. Nearly
nami sirens wailed. elsewhere in the U.S. that scrambled their planes wave of less than 1 foot (30 25,000 earthquakes have
On Kodiak Island about 200 prompt people to take and helicopters into the centimeters) was recorded been recorded in Alaska
miles (320 kilometers) north- shelter. air quickly because of in the community of Sand since Jan. 1, according to
east of where the earth- On Tuesday night, Gerry the tsunami warning and Point. the center.q

New Orleans musician offers kids trumpets for guns

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans trum- Allen told WWL-TV that his life changed
peter, vocalist and bandleader is offering when he was 12 or 13 and first played for
kids trumpets in exchange for guns. tips in the French Quarter.
Shamarr Allen started the project last "I realized, 'OK, I can do this,'" he recount-
week, after a 9-year-old boy was shot ed. "Now, I'm traveling the world, this is my
and killed and two teens wounded, news career because of that trumpet. So if it can
agencies reported. do that for me, it can do that for someone
"I have a 9-year-old son and I grew up in else." He quickly ran through trumpets he
that environment so I understand what owned but wasn't using. Other people of-
those kids are going through. They aren't fered to help. Then he started an online
bad kids, they just don't have anything to fundraiser with a $6,500 goal. By Tuesday
do," Allen told WVUE-TV. afternoon — four days in — he'd raised
In this Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2009, file photo, musician Shamarr Allen So — after checking with police to make $8,800 for trumpets costing about $250 plus
plays his trumpet, signed by New Orleans Saints quarterback sure that he wouldn't get any kids in trou- instruction books. He's also raising money
Drew Brees, on the porch of his Ninth Ward home in New Or- ble and would be able to give police the by selling T-shirts with the slogan "Trumpet
leans, where he recently recorded"Glory Bound," an anthem for guns for safe disposal — he posted a note is my weapon," WWL-TV reported.
the Saints football team. Allen is offering kids trumpets in ex- on his Instagram account: "To all the youth Several musicians have agreed to of-
change for guns.
Associated Press in New Orleans, Bring me a gun and I'll give fer free virtual lessons to kids who get the
you a trumpet no questions asked." trumpets, he said.q