Wednesday’s magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands chain struck in a region that has experienced a handful of powerful quakes within the last five years.

An earthquake with a preliminary 6.2 magnitude has struck off the Pacific coast of Panama. No injuries or damage were immediately reported. The U.S.

The fireball is presumed to be from a meteor fragmenting in the sky, according to meteorologists and other experts.

Scientists for the first time have detected a slow slip earthquake in motion during the act of releasing tectonic pressure on a major fault zone at the bottom of the ocean.