Did any other Alaska Freeper Feel that? 8.0 near Kodiak!

USGS | 1-23-18 | Me

[Species8472]

8.0 earthquake here. Probably shook 3 minutes!

[JockoManning]

Qx has friends who live there—except during the coldest months—when they are in Quartzite AZ LOL. He works on the Pipeline.

[JockoManning]

IIRC, there’s moderate risk depending on several factors at that depth. a 1-2 mile depth is more hazardous. A 10-30 mile depth not so hazardous—depending.

[Herakles]

I’m OK, didn’t feel anything here in central Ohio, thanks for asking.

[EternalVigilance]

Yeah. I realize there are a ton of variables.

[caprock]

That’s quite punny

[ifinnegan]

There’s going to be a lot of aftershocks, for weeks.

[Mount Athos]

i found an article that says the shallower the “focal depth” for an earthquake the more likely it is to make nasty tsunamis. I don’t know if focal depth corresponds to the figure you gave or not

[EternalVigilance]

I was just reading again yesterday about the 9.2 in the Indian Ocean that produced a tsunami that killed more than a quarter million people. They sure aren’t something to play around with.

At that time they had no instruments in the Indian Ocean that allowed them to warn anybody.

[Daniel Ramsey]

4:23 am to hit Hawaii KHON in Honolulu 8s reporting.

[Species8472]

Aftershock drinking game now in effect...........

[Mount Athos]

i wonder if people will believe the cell phone alerts this time after the recent wolf cry. Guess the persistent sirens will be convincing

[JockoManning]

That also involved an undersea cliff of several hundred feet suddenly appear. THAT displaced a LOT of water yielding the huge tsunami.

[Mount Athos]

TSUNAMI THREAT FORECAST...UPDATED

* THE FORECAST BASED ON THE EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM SHOWS NO THREAT FOR AREAS OF THE PACIFIC COVERED BY THIS PRODUCT.
WE ARE WAITING FOR SEA LEVEL DATA TO CONFIRM THIS FORECAST.

* TSUNAMI WAVES ARE FORECAST TO BE LESS THAN 0.3 METERS ABOVE
THE TIDE LEVEL FOR THE COASTS OF

GUAM... HAWAII... JAPAN... JOHNSTON ATOLL... MEXICO...
MIDWAY ISLAND... NORTHERN MARIANAS... NORTHWESTERN
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS... RUSSIA... AND WAKE ISLAND.

[Mount Athos]

so basically a one foot tsunami or less

[Textide]

Video of police issuing evacuation orders in Kodiak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k104rX2QvxA

[sasportas]

If there was/is tsunami from this thing, it would have hit the town of Kodiak seven minutes ago. Kodiak should have reported something by now.

It’ll hit here in about 20 minutes.

[Steve Van Doorn]

expect a wave

[Daniel Ramsey]

At that time of the morning everyone will be asleep, impact though would be the north and north west part of the island.

They are having brutal high surf right now so it might not even be noticed.

There will be more, my guess off the top of my head is the Pacific Northwest is next.

[Reno89519]

I see report of 8 feet in Kodiak; 7 feet in Sitka. Not much height but that is deceptive. Have Sitka police scanner on now--evacuating areas.

https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/25505/web

[Mount Athos]

i’m going to tune out cause it sounds like the tsunami will only be inches high lol