Alaska Earthquake

[NinerDoug]

7.0 Pretty bad.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/scien...=.b82d0c4b415a

ANCHORAGE — An intense earthquake struck the Anchorage area Friday morning, causing severe shaking and damage and triggering fears of a tsunami.

The magnitude-7 quake occurred at 8:29 a.m., local time, the epicenter just north of Anchorage. Moments later, the National Weather Service issued a tsunami warning for Cook Inlet and South Kenai Peninsula. The warning was canceled shortly after 10 a.m.

The Anchorage Police Department said the earthquake caused “major infrastructure damage” across the city, which is home to more than 294,000 people.

“Many homes and buildings are damaged,” the department said in a statement Friday morning. “Many roads and bridges are closed. Stay off the roads if you don’t need to drive.”

Police officers were dispatched across the region to handle “multiple situations,” the department said, although it did not elaborate beyond saying it was working with the school district to check on children there.

A journalist with the news station KTVA shared a photo of the damage in that newsroom, where pieces of the ceiling had apparently fallen on desks and the floor.

Several photos on Twitter showed major damage to roads around Anchorage, with buckled and broken asphalt.

fter the quake, Alaska state troopers were “responding to calls for service and unconfirmed reports of damage,” said Jonathon Taylor, a spokesman for the state’s Department of Public Safety.

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin tweeted that while her “family is intact,” their “house is not.”

The Anchorage School District did not report damage to its buildings but said that parents could pick up children “when they feel it is safe to do so.”
Linton Thompson, the principal of Sand Lake School, was at a training with 50 other elementary school principals at Wayland Baptist Church when the earthquake began. He and many others ran outside, while others sheltered under desks in the conference room where the training was being held. When the shaking stopped, “every principal in that building went 100 different ways,” Thompson said.

[Naptown Chief]

Originally Posted by frozenchief

It was pretty damn bad. No family was injured and our house sustained minor damage, although it threw stuff off the walls, out of book shelves and off tables. It as hard to stand up.

Could have been worse. I can honestly say that feeling of helplessness is really terrifying. All you can do is just get away.

All morning there are aftershocks of varying intensity. Every time you feel one you wonder if this is another major one or will it just jostle the sofa. I’d say we haven’t done 20 minutes without some type of aftershock.

Damn dude, stay safe up there.

[NinerDoug]

Originally Posted by frozenchief

It was pretty damn bad. No family was injured and our house sustained minor damage, although it threw stuff off the walls, out of book shelves and off tables. It as hard to stand up.

Could have been worse. I can honestly say that feeling of helplessness is really terrifying. All you can do is just get away.

All morning there are aftershocks of varying intensity. Every time you feel one you wonder if this is another major one or will it just jostle the sofa. I’d say we haven’t done 20 minutes without some type of aftershock.

Glad to hear you're ok. 7.0 had to be scary.

[Bowser]

Originally Posted by frozenchief

It was pretty damn bad. No family was injured and our house sustained minor damage, although it threw stuff off the walls, out of book shelves and off tables. It as hard to stand up.

Could have been worse. I can honestly say that feeling of helplessness is really terrifying. All you can do is just get away.

All morning there are aftershocks of varying intensity. Every time you feel one you wonder if this is another major one or will it just jostle the sofa. I’d say we haven’t done 20 minutes without some type of aftershock.

Yeesh. Glad you and yours are ok. Stay safe.

[Mike in SW-MO]

Originally Posted by Bearcat

This is what happened on the 6th floor of the Nesbett Courthouse during the Anchorage #earthquake. Both attorneys jumped under their desks. Evacuated the building after the shaking stopped. pic.twitter.com/dqHGPCv6XO

— Heather Hintze (@HeatherHintze) November 30, 2018

The pictures on the wall gives you a feeling for how large the motion is.

Looks like the ship rolling from my old Navy days.

[A Salt Weapon]

We survived untouched in Juneau. There was a couple things in the kitchen knocked over but it turns out that was from the kids playing football and not the earthquake.