A brief, 6.2 magnitude earthquake rattled the Kenai Peninsula at 6:35 pm local time and was located 43 miles south-southwest of Mount Redoubt about 145 miles southwest of Anchorage.

The jolt that jarred residents along Cook Inlet was generated in what is generally known as the Aleutian Arc in the region where the Pacific Plate subducts beneath the North America Plate and occurred 77 miles beneath the surface.

The National Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer said that a tsunami was not expected from this occurrence.

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