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.
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.
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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
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.
Prayers for all affected.
Odds are very good that at least a dozen sexual harassment suits will be filed..
Liquefaction is a terrible thing
“marooning a car on a narrow island of pavement surrounded by deep chasms in the concrete.”
My aunt’s friend worked at the Fourth Avenue Theater then, and was just leaving or going to work. When it hit, one side of Fourth Avenue sank. She and others were helping people on the sunken side back up on to the pavement.
They had no water except for what was brought in on trucks, so forever after my aunt would finish a bottle of Clorox, rinse it out, fill it with water, and stash it away. Then she’d replace with fresh water twice a year.
In the ‘80s, I belonged to a health club in the basement of the Captain Cook Hotel. Then one day it occurred to me that the hotel sits right on the fault, and I was in a basement. I cancelled my membership the very same day. Creeped me out.