A ship sank in 1989 after a rogue wave killed 10 crew members. Now it's leaking oil after a massive Alaska earthquake.

A ship that sank off Kodiak Island four decades ago has started to leak diesel fuel, and a state official suspects ground shaking from last month's massive magnitude 8.2 earthquake might be the reason.

The vessel sank in 1989 in Womens Bay, "and it's been resting there since," Jade Gamble, the state's on-scene spill coordinator, told CoastAlaska. The first reports of an oil sheen came in a week after the July 28 earthquake, the largest in the U.S. in the past half-century.