A powerful earthquake occurred in the USA
30.11.2018 23:43
(Moscow time), Moscow
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7 occurred in Alaska (USA). Local media publish photographs of the destruction and warn of the danger of a tsunami, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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.
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