Alaska Tsunami Warning lifted
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I’ve got liquid smoke and barbecue sauce and pickles ... broken on the floor,” the manager of the local general store said. “It smells horrendous in here.”
Little Kiska Island, at the far western end of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, is a remote speck of land that was heavily contested during World War II.
The earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 7.3, struck at 12:37 p.m. local time south of Sand Point, a community of about 600 people on Popof Island, in the Aleutian chain, according to the Alaska Earthquake Center. “We have seen other earthquakes ...
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The Forward on MSNAlaska’s Nazi Creek renamed after 80 years, following advocacy by son of WWII veteranA little-known creek in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska had been officially named “Nazi Creek” for 80 years — until this week. Following a campaign by a local advocate, the creek was given a new name in the language of the local Indigenous people,
Nazi Creek was renamed Thursday to Kaxchim Chiĝanaa, an Unangax̂ phrase replacing a name originally assigned by World War II-era soldiers.