The first shock hit like a brutal warning from beneath the ocean. In seconds, calm coastal towns were thrown into sirens, alerts, and fear. Families scrambled uphill in the dark, clutching children and phones, refreshing maps, waiting for the next wave—literal or digital. Across the Pacific, from Hawaii to Japan, experts watched screens, calculating, praying the oce… Continues…
In the dead of night, an 8.2 magnitude earthquake ripped through the Alaskan Peninsula, its epicenter deep below the cold waters off Perryville. Within minutes, tsunami sirens wailed in Kodiak and nearby coastal communities, sending residents racing to higher ground. Parents bundled sleepy children into cars, emergency radios crackled to life, and social media flooded with trembling hands filming dark horizons.