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Alaska quake produces prolonged shaking "> A line of cars evacuates the Homer Spit in Homer, Alaska, Wednesday, after a tsunami warning was issued following a magnitude 8.2 earthquake. Homer News via AP Published: 7/29/2021 7:50:19 PM ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The largest earthquake in the United States in the last half century produced a lot of shaking but spared Alaska any major damage in a sparsely populated region, officials said Thursday. The magnitude 8.2 earthquake was reported about 10:15 p.m. Wednesday, and struck just south of the Alaska Peninsula, nearly 500 miles southwest of Anchorage. The quake was about 29 miles below the surface of the North Pacific Ocean, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.