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M 6.6 - 12km N of Anchorage, Alaska (Earthquake)
« on: November 30, 2018, 05:47:20 pm »
Earthquake, M 6.6 - 12km N of Anchorage, Alaska

12 km from Anchorage, Mag. 6.6 quake

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Re: M 6.6 - 12km N of Anchorage, Alaska (Earthquake)
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2018, 05:57:42 pm »
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Re: M 6.6 - 12km N of Anchorage, Alaska (Earthquake)
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2018, 06:39:03 pm »
A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Alaska Friday, the United States Geological Survey said.

The quake, which hit about eight miles north of Anchorage, prompted authorities to declare a tsunami warning.





https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/earthquake-hits-alaska-triggering-tsunami-warning-n942256
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Re: M 6.6 - 12km N of Anchorage, Alaska (Earthquake)
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2018, 06:53:05 pm »
BREAKING: Massive earthquake shakes Alaska, damage in Anchorage
https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/BREAKING-Massive-earthquake-shakes-Alaska-501647481.html

ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - Alaskans felt a large earthquake that shook South Central at around 8:30 a.m. this morning.

According to officials with the USGS, the earthquake initially was a 6.6 magnitude but later adjusted the magnitude to a 7.0, and was centered north of Anchorage. The National Weather Service said it was a 7.0 magnitude quake as well.

Several aftershocks of diminishing strength, but still significant, were felt.

Directly following the massive quake, an emergency alert was issued for a tsunami warning, saying that there was danger on the coast for a tsunami, and instructing people to go to high ground....

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My wife has talked to a couple friends still in Anchorage area.  Most wall objects shaken off hooks, pictures, etc.  Lots of aftershocks.
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Re: M 6.6 - 12km N of Anchorage, Alaska (Earthquake)
« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2018, 07:20:01 pm »
Video from inside the 6th floor courtroom in Anchorage.



https://mobile.twitter.com/HeatherHintze/status/1068577253905203200
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Re: M 6.6 - 12km N of Anchorage, Alaska (Earthquake)
« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2018, 07:44:53 pm »
I remember from my childhood reading about the 1964 earthquake in LIFE magazine and wondered how it compared:
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Lasting four minutes and thirty-eight seconds, the magnitude 9.2 megathrust earthquake was the most powerful earthquake recorded in North American history, and the second most powerful earthquake recorded in world history. 600 miles of fault ruptured at once and moved up to 60 feet (about 500 years of stress buildup).  ...

Post-quake tsunamis severely affected Whittier, Seward, Kodiak, and other Alaskan communities, as well as people and property in British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California. Tsunamis also caused damage in Hawaii and Japan. Evidence of motion directly related to the earthquake was also reported from Florida and Texas.
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Not sure that's much comfort, though. That video was pretty scary.
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Re: M 6.6 - 12km N of Anchorage, Alaska (Earthquake)
« Reply #6 on: November 30, 2018, 08:12:01 pm »
Quote from: edpc on November 30, 2018, 07:20:01 pm
Video from inside the 6th floor courtroom in Anchorage.



https://mobile.twitter.com/HeatherHintze/status/1068577253905203200

Where can I buy one of those earthquake-proof coffee pots? the thing hardly moved...
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Re: M 6.6 - 12km N of Anchorage, Alaska (Earthquake)
« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2018, 08:14:33 pm »
Quote from: Snarknado on November 30, 2018, 08:12:01 pm
Where can I buy one of those earthquake-proof coffee pots? the thing hardly moved...

I know there is more damage but Fox just keeps showing office chairs that have rolled
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Re: M 6.6 - 12km N of Anchorage, Alaska (Earthquake)
« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2018, 08:18:34 pm »
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Re: M 6.6 - 12km N of Anchorage, Alaska (Earthquake)
« Reply #9 on: November 30, 2018, 08:20:18 pm »
Quote from: mystery-ak on November 30, 2018, 08:18:34 pm
Sarah Palin says Alaska earthquake damaged her house
 

So she can't see Russia anymore?   :whistle:
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Re: M 6.6 - 12km N of Anchorage, Alaska (Earthquake)
« Reply #10 on: November 30, 2018, 08:28:34 pm »
Quote from: mystery-ak on November 30, 2018, 08:14:33 pm
I know there is more damage but Fox just keeps showing office chairs that have rolled


CNN has a graphic video showing a bottle of broken Tabasco.


https://www.cnn.com
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Re: M 6.6 - 12km N of Anchorage, Alaska (Earthquake)
« Reply #11 on: November 30, 2018, 08:42:20 pm »
Quote from: dfwgator on November 30, 2018, 08:20:18 pm
So she can't see Russia anymore?   :whistle:
You do realize she never said that?
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Re: M 6.6 - 12km N of Anchorage, Alaska (Earthquake)
« Reply #12 on: November 30, 2018, 08:44:25 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on November 30, 2018, 08:42:20 pm
You do realize she never said that?

Of course.
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Re: M 6.6 - 12km N of Anchorage, Alaska (Earthquake)
« Reply #13 on: November 30, 2018, 09:03:41 pm »
Soon after the Northridge quake, a friend of a
mine said, it upset him great deal.

I felt Sylmar 1971, Whittier Narrows 1987, and
Northridge 1994,plus a few smaller ones.

As a youngster we had camped at the 1959 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake area (Yellowstone Park) just days before.


I saw it again camping in 1966. Madison River, in the vicinity of where the park touches Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.

In a quake the safest place to be, is inside a very modern building, built to withstand sheer. In Northridge apartment buildings had "tuck-under" 1st story parking which "pancaked"



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Re: M 6.6 - 12km N of Anchorage, Alaska (Earthquake)
« Reply #14 on: November 30, 2018, 09:36:34 pm »
Quote from: edpc on November 30, 2018, 07:20:01 pm
Video from inside the 6th floor courtroom in Anchorage.



https://mobile.twitter.com/HeatherHintze/status/1068577253905203200

Amazing footage, and almost as amazing is why it took that woman 15 seconds to get under a table.
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Re: M 6.6 - 12km N of Anchorage, Alaska (Earthquake)
« Reply #15 on: November 30, 2018, 10:24:01 pm »
Quote from: truth_seeker on November 30, 2018, 05:47:20 pm
Earthquake, M 6.6 - 12km N of Anchorage, Alaska

12 km from Anchorage, Mag. 6.6 quake

"Experts" from all fields, to call in their opinions, before journalists write stories.

Since you asked, I will provide my learned opinion as a "climate scientist" for you.  That is, it is surely a sign of global warming, cooling, I mean climate change, that this earthquake has occurred.  Thank me.
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Re: M 6.6 - 12km N of Anchorage, Alaska (Earthquake)
« Reply #16 on: November 30, 2018, 10:28:37 pm »
There’s never a great time for it, but having your house bust open in an Alaskan winter has to be the worst.
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Re: M 6.6 - 12km N of Anchorage, Alaska (Earthquake)
« Reply #17 on: November 30, 2018, 10:30:30 pm »
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"Experts" from all fields, to call in their opinions, before journalists write stories.
"Well, you see, this is all because Alaska has this huge oil industry and they're drawing so much oil out of the ground, especially with all the deep fracking now, that it's destabilizing the tectonic plates! Plus with global climate change, the Earth is shifting because all the melt making the glaciers smaller and relieving the weight on the plates!"

"All of this is the Republicans' fault."

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Re: M 6.6 - 12km N of Anchorage, Alaska (Earthquake)
« Reply #18 on: November 30, 2018, 11:07:16 pm »
Quote from: EdJames on November 30, 2018, 10:24:01 pm
Since you asked, I will provide my learned opinion as a "climate scientist" for you.  That is, it is surely a sign of global warming, cooling, I mean climate change, that this earthquake has occurred.  Thank me.
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Re: M 6.6 - 12km N of Anchorage, Alaska (Earthquake)
« Reply #19 on: December 01, 2018, 02:28:55 am »
I've got friends posting on Facebook.

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Re: M 6.6 - 12km N of Anchorage, Alaska (Earthquake)
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Re: M 6.6 - 12km N of Anchorage, Alaska (Earthquake)
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Re: M 6.6 - 12km N of Anchorage, Alaska (Earthquake)
« Reply #22 on: December 01, 2018, 12:54:14 pm »
Wow, those roads!  Any reports of injury?
As a child living in Northridge, we experienced a few tremors and the concrete around our swimming pool cracked, but it was nothing like this.

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Re: M 6.6 - 12km N of Anchorage, Alaska (Earthquake)
« Reply #23 on: December 01, 2018, 01:31:01 pm »
Back-to-back earthquakes shatter roads and windows in Alaska
10 hrs ago

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Back-to-back earthquakes measuring 7.0 and 5.7 shattered highways and rocked buildings Friday in Anchorage and the surrounding area, sending people running into the streets and briefly triggering a tsunami warning for islands and coastal areas south of the city.

No tsunami arrived and there were no immediate reports of deaths or serious injuries.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the first and more powerful quake was centered about 7 miles (12 kilometers) north of Anchorage, Alaska's largest city, with a population of about 300,000. People ran from their offices or took cover under desks. The 5.7 aftershock arrived within minutes, followed by a series of smaller quakes. ...

Alaska was the site of the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the U.S. The 9.2-magnitude quake on March 27, 1964, was centered about 75 miles (120 kilometers) east of Anchorage. It and the tsunami it triggered claimed about 130 lives.

The state averages 40,000 earthquakes a year, with more large quakes than the 49 other states combined. Southern Alaska has a high risk of earthquakes because the Earth's plates slide past each other under the region.  ...More, plus photos
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Re: M 6.6 - 12km N of Anchorage, Alaska (Earthquake)
« Reply #24 on: December 01, 2018, 03:00:21 pm »
A friend had most of the brick shook off their house including the fireplace inside and out.  A lot of broken glass.
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