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Alaska Earthquakes 0131-0200 24 Jan 2016 Z+9

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Alaska had a bunch of earthquakes in half an hour...

Peak was reported as 7.1
there's also a 6.8, a 4.8, a 3.2, and 2x 2.8's last I checked.

I'm fine. This is the first one to knock things off shelves...
We had a good solid 3 minutes of shaking felt in Eagle River...
The 2.8's barely registered to us... but the cats noticed.
 
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Glad you're fine.

Have been victims or damages?
 
McPerth said:
Glad you're fine.

Have been victims or damages?
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Too early to tell on casualties (besides, to quote Dr. McCoy, "My Wits! As in Frightened out of."

Several regional power outages. News reporting is hampered by the lateness. There are likely to be secondary casualties due to power outages causing automotive accidents. (The streetlights are on citywide mains, without local battery backups.)

About 4000 people are without power, but that should be fixed shortly.

We didn't lose power. Some stuff fell off shelves. Cats and kids wigged out.

http://m.ktuu.com/news/strong-earth...nitude-of-about-71-hits-south-alaska/37610068
 
We had just left the state in 1958 before the 8.something in 1960 the elementary school my siblings attended was destroyed it was built straddling a fault line and the earthquake stair cased the school across about 9 meters down as the ground was ripped and one side went up and the other down , but not all at one spot.

If I did it right you'll see the school here.
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgur...d=0ahUKEwjPkazO4cLKAhXFuIMKHcT_D6cQMwgqKAkwCQ

for the frequency:

http://geology.com/records/biggest-tsunami.shtml

"Prior to the July, 1958 tsunami Don J. Miller of the United States Geological Survey had been studying evidence for the occurrence of large waves in Lituya Bay. He had documented evidence for at least four previous large waves with estimated dates of 1936, 1899, 1874 and 1853 (or 1854). All of these waves were significant in size but shoreline evidence for all of them was removed by the 1958 wave"
 
Glad to hear you are OK.

Those that haven't been present during a good-sized quake can't really comprehend the immense power involved. It isn't something you soon forget...

I lived in the San Fransisco area, and was there during the Quake of '89. It was quite an experience to watch ripples running thru the concrete runways of Moffatt Naval Air Station, and I know exactly what you mean with the wits comment.

My unit did quite a bit of digging and rescue work along the 880 freeway collapse line, and also help distribute supplies and clean up in the Marina district.

I was lucky -- no more than jangled nerves on my part. Looking back at it, you could easily tell which troops had been present during the quake - they were the ones that didn't panic when the aftershocks would hit.

Admittedly, it gave me quite a few adventure hooks for various campaigns.

Anyway, hope all goes well, and that casualties are light.
 
Glad you're ok. Personally never felt more than a mild "Did you feel that?" type of quake. Hope that's all I ever get here. Stay safe!
 
dalthor; I remember 89 distinctly. The walls of the house undulated back and forth. The bookshelves bolted to the downstairs wall buckled and collapsed, and a few other things. I was laying down in bed resting up for tae kwon do later that evening, when the bed jolted. I got up, thinking the quake would die before I got downstairs, but it kept on going and going.

The most violent quake we had was actually bigger than 89, but only lasted a fraction of the time. It happened in the dead of night, and my bed, on castors, violently rolled across the bedroom as everything shoot and fell of tables, shelves and what not.

Quick factoid about 89 and the 880; a family member told me as we drove along it (this was 1982 I think) that if there was ever an earthquake to pull over to the side and jump down, because it was discovered that the structure would not hold up over a certain magnitude. I never forgot that. And sure enough it came down. That was a real eye opener to real world local or state wide politics and public works.

I'm glad Alaska wasn't hit too hard. They've had some violent shakers in years past. My aunt was there for the last huge quake way back in the 60s.
 
Glad to hear that you are okay. Earthquakes are one of the few things that truly terrify me, which is one of the reasons I live in NY. Not to common here....
 
flykiller said:
heh. lightweight. I can almost see the san andreas from here, and it's overdue by several decades. "california rest in peace" and all that.
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Would you believe that Salesforce.Com is building a "Sears Tower" like high-rise over first street in San Francisco?
 
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Would you believe that Salesforce.Com is building a "Sears Tower" like high-rise over first street in San Francisco?
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sure. in the financial world what matters is how much you get paid next week. next month is like, dude, nowhere, and next year is like, dude, huh?
 
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