Posted on 12/01/2018 10:02:54 AM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: The power of Alaska's earthquake: Dramatic aerial images show devastated roads cracked by the two earthquakes that rocked the state and sparked a tsunami warning
Shocking aerial images of shown the devastating impact the earthquakes in Alaska had on the roads and landscape.
The tremors that struck the state on early Friday morning decimated stretches of road, and made them impassible,
Back-to-back earthquakes measuring 7.0 and 5.7 also 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 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.
'We just hung onto each other. You couldn't even stand,' said Sheila Bailey, who was working at a high school cafeteria in Palmer when the quake struck. 'It sounded and felt like the school was breaking apart.'
A large section of an off-ramp near the Anchorage airport collapsed, marooning a car on a narrow island of pavement surrounded by deep chasms in the concrete. Several cars crashed at a major intersection in Wasilla, north of Anchorage, during the shaking.
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Haha, probably correct.
Thanks for letting me know. Good job.
I lived less than 3 blocks from “Northridge’ when the 71 quake hit.
I was very lucky. I had little damage. My house was situated east-west.
Friend who had a north-south house got severe damage. EVERY single ting in the kitchen cupboards came out & was smashed. The swinging front door & the sliding back door were both locked. The quake opened both of them, and then gyrated the water in the swimming pool & sent it thru his house. In the slider, out the front door.
The damages caused by that quake are still not repaired. Endless fighting over insurance, etc.
The following winter I was riding on Amtrak from Southern California to Illinois (the old Santa Fe route). There was an elderly lady on the train who had decided to leave LA because of the earthquakes and was headed to Fort Worth. Apparently she had not contacted anyone there, but her wedding had been in Fort Worth in 1911 and there had been a lot of people at the wedding, so she was sure she would find someone she knew.
Ah, for a simpler time.
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