wow, crazy, hope ppl will be ok!! scary
I remember visiting Anchorage and seeing incredible photos of the 1964 quake, large gaps in street pavement with whole blocks of houses collapsed..... hope nothing so bad this time??!! It is a dangerous zone when the earth moves....
This was listed as a 7.0 that lasted for a minute. I was in a 7.5 in Mexico City in 1957, and a 4 in the mid Atlantic in 2011? called I believe the Mineral EQ. You can see from the photos that this EQ ripped up highways and other areas. On the other hand although the 7.5 was stronger and lasted more like 1.5 minutes, Mexico City is built on a lake bed and the ground sort of rocked and swirled like a fast moving subway train. Streets were not torn and very few buildings collapsed although I saw a lot of broken windows, cracks in walls, and knocked over tall planters. A roommate said the chandelier in the living room swung so hard it hit one side of the ceiling and then over to hit the other side of the ceiling. I was sitting on the edge of the bed when the 4 hit. It was a hard shuddering motion and I could see the wall opposite me vibrating/shaking. In Mexico for weeks after I could feel the gentle vibration of aftershocks as I was lying down. After the 4, I was at my computer with a cup of water at my side. I saw the water vibrate, and a few minutes later the news reported a 2.5 quake. That also happened again a few days later. A cup or bowl of water makes a good sysmograph (sp?) of you don’t have anything fancier.