Alaska's Kodiak Island is being slammed by a swarm of earthquakes, one with a magnitude of 5.9.
Richard Buckmaster, a geophysicist at the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colorado, says the southeast region of the island was hit Saturday by 20 earthquakes with magnitudes of 2.6 or greater.
He says the 5.9 magnitude quake is expected to be upgraded to 6.1.
The quakes are centered southeast of Old Harbor, but …
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