[calljack]

It didn't force officials to shut down the pipeline. The pipeline automatically shut itself down. Lazy reporting, whoda thunkit.

[Anchoragite]

"It didn't force officials to shut down the pipeline. The pipeline automatically shut itself down. Lazy reporting, whoda thunkit."

That was the early report. Afterward, Alyeska clarified that after seismic alarms went off, there was a manual shutdown from the Operations Control Center in Valdez. So the article is correct.