Just before midnight local time, a buoy near Sand Point measured a rise in water level of about six inches. Another near Old Harbor on Kodiak Island measured just over eight inches.
A tsunami watch was also briefly issued for Hawaii and canceled a little over an hour later, Gov. David Ige said on Twitter.
In Kodiak, where the earthquake could be felt, tsunami sirens blared and people began moving to higher ground.
Perryville, Alaska, with a population of 113, is 57 miles northwest of the quake’s epicenter, the United States Geological Survey said. Anchorage, with a population of nearly 300,000, was about 500 miles north northeast.
Since 1990, there have been 17 earthquakes of 8.2 magnitude or higher, according to U.S.G.S. data.
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