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A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.5 struck south of Alaska's Aleutian Islands on Monday, triggering a tsunami warning for the area, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 hit a group of small islands off the coast of Japan's main island of Honshu, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.