Big Quake Rocks Alaska

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A powerful earthquake sent some coastal Alaska residents running for higher ground in fear they would be swamped by a tsunami.

The magnitude-6.7 quake struck at 11 p.m. Thursday and was centered in the ocean about 35 miles beneath the seabed and some 400 miles southwest of Anchorage. It hit a remote and lightly populated Aleutian Island region, but didn't trigger a tsunami.

The temblor was felt on the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island, more than 100 miles away.

Alvin Pedersen lives in Chignik Lagoon, a community on the Alaska Peninsula's Pacific Ocean side.

He says residents "got shook up pretty good" and some ran to higher ground in case of a tsunami.

Pedersen says pictures fell off the wall and items were knocked off shelves, but nothing was broken.