A powerful earthquake occurred in the USA

A magnitude 7 earthquake struck Alaska, USA. Local media are publishing photos of the destruction and warning of a tsunami, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.

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Let us recall that in 1867 the Russian Empire signed an agreement with the United States on the sale of Alaska for $7.2 million. The first Russian settlers appeared in Alaska around the middle of the XNUMXth century. After the Crimean War, St. Petersburg considered that the costs of maintaining and protecting such a remote and geopolitically vulnerable territory would outweigh the potential profits.