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Alaska center mistakenly reports magnitude 6.2 earthquake

An Alaska center has deleted a posting of an earthquake that apparently didn’t happen over the weekend. A notification originally said the earthquake had a magnitude of 6.2.

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake that the Alaska Earthquake Center reported Saturday morning apparently didn't happen.

The quake appeared on the center's earthquake map saying it occurred at 8:32 a.m. off the coast of southern Alaska. The online posting said the epicenter was located in the Gulf of Alaska, 66 miles south of Chignik, a community of 87 people on the Alaska Peninsula, the center said.

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Later Saturday morning, they posted a note saying, "Event Deleted Notification" and "This event has been deleted after review by a seismologist."

Phone and email messages left with the earthquake center seeking comment on what happened were not returned.

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