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Another "quake survivor"! We were in Anchorage out at Sand Lake during the earthquake. We were sitting in cardboard boxes watching XL-5 or the Flintstones when the TV went off and Mom grabbed us and said "kids let's get out of her!" Five minutes of watching tree tops try to touch the ground and saucer eyed - it finally quit.

I remember it like it was yesterday, WOW!

My sons were then nearly 9 & 10, playing out in the mounds of snow in the back yard, so they were 'on their own' for the duration.

I can only imagine the jolt you experienced, but I was 300 miles north and the entire house (2-story with basement) was tilting a full 20 degrees in both directions!

AWESOME power !!!

How about the aftershocks, though - worse, because you didn't know if the next one would be a bigger quake?!
The bad part was all our families in the Lower 48 who had no idea how we were affected, communications cut for four days to the area.

I-king, once when I described this on a thread, a fellow who had been at the University of Nebraska at that time related the following:
Said he was, at the time it struck, standing next to their seismograph.
He and his companion were in utter disbelief when the needle suddenly wildly swung from one extreme side of the graph paper to the other.

In Fairbanks, the University records an average of 20 shocks daily, most not felt.
The stronger ones do get your attention - LOL!