Posted on 12/01/2018 10:02:54 AM PST by Morgana
You okay??? Alaska Ping!
All FReepers in Alaska please check in!
I have family there in Anchorage. They are safe but sounds like their home is not so well. Many, Many people impacted. The pictures really tell a story.
I have a friend who has family there been trying to call him but as usual his cell phone service is crappy.
Yikes. Thanks for posting. Amazing there were no deaths?
In March 1964, the Anchorage area got hit with 9.2 earthquake. Water tables in midwestern US states were even affected. More than 100 people killed.
https://www.history.com/topics/natural-disasters-and-environment/1964-alaska-earthquake
That GMC Terrain is a highly documented vehicle.
I await to see it’s social media profile.
My grandma once talked about how the local lake used to be a pasture. She said that an earthquake in Alaska created the lake. I wasnt sure if I should believe her or not until I heard some classmates talking about watching out for fence posts while waterskiing during dry summers.
I just didnt realize it had happened as recently as 1964. My mom graduated a few years later and thats where she and her friends went waterskiing. A dramatic change in the landscape.
Yea they look like West Virginia’s roads!
There’s actually a lot of scholarly hydrology writing about the 1964 Alaska earthquake’s effect on water tables in the Lower 48, including huge changes in Florida!
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Um, no. Not “devastating”.
Fake news.
Almost all of the images are cherry-picked for effect & depict liquefaction. Videos are also cherry-picked and replayed ad nauseam.
Though it is recorded as higher in intensity than Northridge, in the pictures, ‘I’ see an earthquake being hyped with very, very light damage. That goes for images & video I’ve viewed elsewhere. I know someone who was in Northridge: He laughed heartily when he saw the damage & shaking.
Examples (including the cameraman who stays on his feet to record the “drama”):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y63F8t9lvPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjvpk2Fe6UQ
Here is static video of the shaking without human drama:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y63F8t9lvPM
Thank You for the ping and post Morgana :)
Alaska Ping.
It looks like some liquefication and slumping of earthworks in a few places. On which the media has concentrated and declared these exceptions to be the normal.
Just their usual fear mongering.
I do believe everyone is okay. Only shaken and not stirred :)
Another picture shows the red GMC on the flatbed. I wonder how they got it over the big gaps.
Not much different than most of the Freeways in SoCal after every rain.
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