--- description: A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit Alaska early Sunday, causing significant road damage, authorities said. title: Strong 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake Rocks Alaska image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67a46ae2163bf67e/69887a5b0b72e368716e7ca0/alaska-earthquake-supermarket-aftermath.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Strong 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake Rocks Alaska  by [Melissa Chan](/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 24, 2016 3:03 PM CUT  Boxes of cereal and bottles of juice lie on the floor of a Safeway grocery store following an earthquake on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska on Jan. 24, 2016. Boxes of cereal and bottles of juice lie on the floor of a Safeway grocery store following an earthquake on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska on Jan. 24, 2016.Vincent Nusunginya—AP  by [Melissa Chan](/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 24, 2016 3:03 PM CUT A [7.1-magnitude earthquake](https://local.nixle.com/alert/5573432/ "undefined") hit Alaska early Sunday, causing significant road damage, authorities said. There were no reports of injuries after the earthquake jolted Anchorage area residents awake at 1:30 a.m. local time, the Anchorage Police Department said in a statement. However, it caused damage to roads in Kasilof, according to the [Alaska Department of Transportation](https://www.facebook.com/AlaskaDOTPF/posts/1327406623951722 "undefined"). The earthquake was centered 53 miles west of Anchor Point in the Kenai Peninsula, which is about 160 miles southwest of Anchorage, [according to the Associated Press](http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/federal-agency-magnitude-64-earthquake-hit-southern-alaska-36482900 "undefined"). A 4.3-magnitude aftershock hit the Cook Inlet about two hours later. “It started out as a shaking and it seemed very much like a normal earthquake. But then it started to feel like a normal swaying, like a very smooth side-to-side swaying,” Vincent Nusunginya, 34, of Kenai told the AP. “It was unsettling. Some things got knocked over, but there was no damage.” There’s no threat of a tsunami, Anchorage police said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4191770/alaska-earthquake-7-1-magnitude/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4191770/alaska-earthquake-7-1-magnitude/"},"headline":"Strong 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake Rocks Alaska","datePublished":"2016-01-24T15:03:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T09:08:05.246Z","description":"There were no reported injuries","url":"https://time.com/4191770/alaska-earthquake-7-1-magnitude/","keywords":["Alaska"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67a46ae2163bf67e/69887a5b0b72e368716e7ca0/alaska-earthquake-supermarket-aftermath.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Chan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67a46ae2163bf67e/69887a5b0b72e368716e7ca0/alaska-earthquake-supermarket-aftermath.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Alaska-Earthquake","caption":"Boxes of cereal and bottles of juice lie on the floor of a Safeway grocery store following an earthquake on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska on Jan. 24, 2016.","creditText":"Vincent Nusunginya—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4191770/alaska-earthquake-7-1-magnitude/","name":"Strong 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake Rocks Alaska"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Meet the Man Who Might Save You One Day","description":"Toronto paramedic, Rahul Singh, made the TIME 100 list in 2010 for his work saving lives in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake. 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