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Earthquake rocks Alaska Parks
A strong earthquake struck deep underground near Denali National Park early today, rocking much of Alaska and waking people as far as 350 miles away, experts at the Alaska Tsunami Warning Center said.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or widespread damage.
The quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 on the Richter scale, hit at 3:27 a.m. yesterday morning, jarred residents in Fairbanks, 85 miles north of the epicenter and in Anchorage, 170 miles to the southwest. Telephone lines to the Denali National Park ranger station, about 27 miles from the epicenter, were dead.
The observatory was deluged with calls about the quake, which occurred on an active fault about 25 miles beneath the surface.
Crocodile kills German tourist
A 13-foot crocodile killed a German tourist who was swimming in one of Australia’s largest national parks yesterday.
The 24-year-old woman, whose identity was not released, was in a waterhole in Kakadu National Park in northern Australia late Tuesday when she disappeared. Witnesses said they heard her scream and she vanished beneath the water.
Rothwell said people on shore thought it may have been a gag. But when he reached shore, he cast a flashlight on the water and “saw two red eyes going away from where the girl had just gone under, and we saw the outline of a crocodile swimming along the surface of the water.”
Police from the nearby town of Jabiru and park rangers searched through the night for the woman after the leader of her nine-member tour group called authorities on a satellite phone.
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