Alaska Region.. Not sure if this means anything regarding the Uplift... Alaska Region.. Not sure if this means anything regarding the Uplift...I suppose that the mild shaking due to small or distant earthquakes could trigger some kind of slippage in the cliffs. According to the article, the uplift cannot be accounted for by a local fault movement, since this would have been felt locally as a severe earthquake. Also, I think that the area of uplift is very small and isolated.