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Strong earthquake activity continues near Noatak, with a strong aftershock recorded last week.

A 5.8 earthquake hit the northern Lynn Canal area this morning just before 4 a.m.

“There’s a small danger in treating 1964 as an example of everything that can happen.”

Just two weeks after the strongest earthquake in the region in more than 30 years, residents of Noatak and others near the far western edge of the Brooks Range felt another series of powerful quakes over the weekend.

A 6.1 magnitude quake coming from unusually deep underwater shook Nikolski and Unalaska around noon last Wednesday.

Workers at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power station successfully completed the first day of a delicate operation to remove radioactive fuel rods from a reactor damaged in the March 2011 tsunami.