It comes as Hurricane Melissa ramps up to a Category 5 tropical storm slated to crash into the southeastern shores of Jamaica, which is bracing for the potential largest storm to hit the island in recent history. Forecasters have warned that Jamaica will be slammed with catastrophic flooding, multiple landslides and heavy infrastructure damage.

A magnitude 5.4 earthquake off the coast of Alaska prompted a precautionary tsunami information alert for the Pacific Northwest before officials confirmed there was no threat to Washington state.

The hurricane weakened to a Category 3 after carving a path of destruction across Jamaica. Limited communications there have left officials with only partial reports as they seek to assess the scale of the damage.

The remnant of Typhoon Halong slammed the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, an area in Western Alaska hundreds of miles from the U.S. road system. More than a thousand people are displaced.

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Search and rescue efforts stretch into a third day after Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as one of the strongest Atlantic storms on record. Nearly a half million people on the island remain without power.