Over 160 earthquakes strike Alaska in 24 hours
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A powerful, magnitude-7.0 earthquake has struck in a remote area near the border between Alaska and the Canadian territory of Yukon on Saturday.
Every fifteen minutes, on average, the ground moves somewhere in Alaska. Most of those quakes are too small to notice, but together they reveal a state under constant geologic pressure. That routine background shaking turned into a regional jolt last Saturday,
An enormous earthquake has rattled the North American continent, with tremors being felt across the US-Canada border.