Photos: 6.24 earthquake rattles Southcentral Alaska

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Legal assistant Sarah Ovsak said she felt panicked as an earthquake caused shelves to tip in lawyer John Wendlandt’s office on Thursday morning, September 25, 2014, in a downtown Anchorage office building.

The Alaska Earthquake Information Center reports that an earthquake that shook Southcentral and Interior Alaska for several seconds Thursday at 9:51 a.m. had a preliminary magnitude of 6.24, not 6.1 as originally reported.

The National Weather Service originally said the temblor was located 60 miles southwest of Talkeetna at a depth of 98 kilometers, although the Alaska Earthquake Information Center later updated the depth to 103 kilometers (64 miles); according to the Alaska Tsunami Warning Center, a tsunami is not expected.

Seismologist Natalia Ruppert at the Alaska Earthquake Information Center said the quake was caused by the Pacific plate diving under the North American plate; its depth, she said, will have minimized its impact.

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