Quake rattles Arctic village

A MAGNITUDE 6.4 earthquake has hit near the native Alaskan village of Kaktovik and part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge where the Trump administration plans to allow oil drilling.

No injuries or damage were reported after the tremblor, the most powerful on record in Alaska’s oil-producing North Slope, hit just before 7am (local time) on Sunday, Paul Huang, a seismologist and deputy director of the National Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer, Alaska, said.

No tsunami alert was generated.