Just to give this flavor for how unexciting this was for Alaskans, the local news waited 25 minutes before saying anything about the earthquake, presenting it as the lead-in for the weather amid happy chatter from the newsreaders about things rattling and shaking, then quickly followed by a nice photo from the Aleutians showing the sun on the ocean and the forecast. My Facebook friends had a variety of responses, with many considering it to be kind of cool, a few scared, and at least one guy disgusted lass than 30 minutes afterwards with his status being overwhelmed with quake-related comments writing a plea for a return to football.
When I lived in Oregon we had an earthquake of the same size, and the media and the people couldn’t stop talking about it. Up here, it’s just another earthquake.
Sadly, I live up in the interior in a rare quake-scarce area, so we felt nothing. However, I lived in Palmer for a while in a little crappy cabin on a hill along Soapstone Road and got to experience rocking and reeling once every other month or so. I miss it.
Our real concern is lack of snow. My snowmachine is suffering.
Had a 5.8 hit a populated area of California, it would be headline national news.