Posted on 11/30/2018 1:48:17 PM PST by Red Badger
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook Anchorage, Alaska on Friday morning at 8.29am
The center of the earthquake took place about seven miles from Anchorage, the largest city in the state
A tsunami warning was initially placed for coastal areas including Alaska's Cook Inlet and southern Kenai Peninsula but it was later cancelled
At least eight aftershocks rippled through the city, the largest one measuring 5.8 magnitude in Anchorage
Alaska averages 40,000 earthquakes per year, which is more large quakes than the other 49 states combined
White House said President Trump, who is in Argentina for the G20 Summit, has been briefed on the quake
Alaska Governor Bill Walker has declared a state of emergency in Anchorage
No immediate deaths or injuries have been reported in the disaster
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
'It was anarchy. Everything that's not tied down is broke': State of emergency declared in Anchorage after devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake leaves residents running for cover, roads cracked and homes without power
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Forty thousand quakes per year??!!
This was ....interesting ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2obcml1lb3E
That 40k is over all of Alaska which is quite large, and includes pretty much anything that makes a squiggle on a seismograph.
Ping.
Forty thousand quakes per year?
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Whole lot of Quaking going on
That is exactly why they tell you not to store pots and pans high in the kitchen as I do0 ... they all come down at once.
Anarchy?
A very abused word. Like the big government anarchists in Portland. I just scratch my head.
Anarchy?.....
a state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority.
“he must ensure public order in a country threatened with anarchy”
synonyms: lawlessness, nihilism, mobocracy, revolution, insurrection, disorder, chaos, mayhem, tumult, turmoil
“conditions are dangerously ripe for anarchy”
absence of government and absolute freedom of the individual, regarded as a political ideal.
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Probably, in a stretch - at least wordwise -, could say OK BUT used in the wrong context.
When I first saw that, my eyeballs twinged in ‘pain’...<: <: <:
British tabloids..................
Wait until SF gets hit. Or LA.
A seven-point-oh quake with aftershocks as strong as 5.8? That's major! Prayers for everyone in Alaska.
109 quakes per day!!
Most probably are so small they aren’t felt.
“Wait until SF gets hit. Or LA.”
Or coastal Oregon.
And the overwhelming majority of people live their lives in those places like it will never happen.
one every 15 minutes or so - mostly deep and low on the scale. A plenitude of active volcanoes tend to indicate geological instability and all that goes with it ... Indonesia is even worse.
*shudder*
I didn’t have cameras but that so brings up bad memories of the Northridge quake (I was 1 mile from the epicenter).
That kind of event can trigger PTSD. I had to send my wife to stay with relatives for a few weeks — she was new to California and had never experienced a quake before.
Every time a truck drove by she wold literally jump out of bed in terror. She could not sleep.
1964 it was 9.2 (20+ times greater) ... which makes a 7.x look like child’s play. Pretty much in the same area
“Because of the logarithmic basis of the scale, each whole number increase in magnitude represents a tenfold increase in measured amplitude; as an estimate of energy, each whole number step in the magnitude scale corresponds to the release of about 31 times more energy than the amount associated with the preceding whole number value”
7.0 = “Causes damage to most buildings, some to partially or completely collapse or receive severe damage. Well-designed structures are likely to receive damage. Felt across great distances with major damage mostly limited to 250 km from epicenter.”
9.x = “At or near total destruction - severe damage or collapse to all buildings. Heavy damage and shaking extends to distant locations. Permanent changes in ground topography.”
I lived in Southern California for the Whittier quake of 1987 and the Northridge quake of the early 90s. So I’m familiar with seismic events. But a 7.0.... no.
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