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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The powerful earthquake that struck in Northern California on Thursday prompted a brief tsunami warning affecting about 5 million people along a stretch of the West Coast — from Northern California to Oregon — before being canceled. A tsunami, a word that comes from the Japanese characters for harbor and wave, is a series of extremely long …