[rdl6989]

NBC News puts it at magnitude 7.2 and says a tsunami warning has been issued for Cook Inlet.

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1068561446412406794

[Buckeye McFrog]

Maybe Lisa Murkowski is hanging out at the beach.

[rktman]

Climate change, erf swelling due to increased heating caused by See Uh Oh 2.

[mewzilla]

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
8
Per USGS a 7.0 and a 5.8 a few minutes later. At around 40 km depth.

[Telepathic Intruder]

It’s been upgraded to 6.7 due to global warming.

[sodpoodle]

Frequently check Drudge’s quake sheets - monitoring that Rattlesnake slide in Yakima, Washington. Still sliding, but very slowly and it’s not ‘huge’.

[stars & stripes forever]

7.0 earthquake in ALASKA.
DUTCUSINSE is making comments now.
https://www.twitch.tv/dutchsinseofficial

[Bob434]

wasn’t it anchorage that had the massive quake many years ago that sent a huge tsunami out?

[KC_Lion]

Alaska Ping here too.

[Mr. K]

someplace else said 7.

For those not familiar with it, this scale is logarithmic.

A 6.8 is 10 times as much as 6.7

so, a 7 is 1000 times stronger than a 6.7

[RayChuang88]

Alaska is part of the so-called Ring of Fire. I'm actually surprised there hasn't been way more big earthquakes and volcanic activity in Alaska in recent years.

[higgmeister]

I went through the a 7.0 earthquake.

1980 Azores Islands earthquake. Striking the Autonomous Region of Azores on 1 January, the 1980 Azores Island earthquake killed 61 people and injured over 400, causing severe damage on the islands of Terceira and São Jorge.

Stationed there as a USAF Sgt. I got a detail to be a spotter on a C-130 looking for boats that may have been swamped with possible survivors. Then for the next several days we went around Terceira Island in teems to help dig people out and make sure collapsed homes were made safe. I'll never forget an old man showing us the clothing that his wife had died in.

[BipolarBob]

Grab the surfboards, surfs up.

[ETL]

At a depth of ~26 miles, the fault plane is probably the surface between the continent and the subducting oceanic tectonic plate. In other words, the fault plane is horizontal, as opposed to a San Andres quake where the tectonic plate motion is lateral, with a vertical fault plane.

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U.S. News & World Report

Magnitude 6.7 Earthquake Strikes Alaska: USGS

By Yereth Rosen

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.7 quake struck just south of Point MacKenzie, Alaska on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The quake had a depth of 26.7 miles (43 km) and its epicenter was located 7 miles (11.4 km) from Anchorage.

Although the National Weather Service initially said there was no tsunami danger, a few minutes later the agency said on Twitter that there was a warning in place for Cook Inlet.

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2018-11-30/magnitude-67-earthquake-strikes-alaska-usgs

[jetson]

Just had a 7 point in Africa.