Earthquake Alaska

Fox News | 6/22/09 | Fox News/USGS

[Red_Devil 232]

When the ground shifts like that and it is on a property line, whose property is it?

[headstamp 2]

Delicious.

[headstamp 2]

Yes, the classic “59 and 60 Chevy” earthquake photograph.

[Sioux-san]

The reporter I heard on Fox radio also said No Danger of Tsunami. Would there ever be such a danger for an inland earthquake? At first that just sounded stupid, but then the epicenter is closer to the coast than it is to Fairbanks as reported on the radio.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

Alaska is seismically very active.Alaska accounts for approximately 11% of the world's earthquakes and 52% of all earthquakes in the U.S. Alaska has more seismicity than any other region in North America and is by far the most seismically active state in the U.S.

[Marysecretary]

I remember the one back in the 60’s. Pretty horrendous. I think of that every time I hear of an earthquake back there. I’ve been to Anchorage twice. Interesting city. All of my kids have lived there at one time or another. Ever hear of Harold’s Maytag?

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

One of the biggest things to worry about is tsunami. Many of these big quakes are underwater. The quakes cause a bottom displacement and then a tsunami occurs

[LimitedPowers]

What about the Caribou!?! We have to save the Caribou!!!

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Mynd yoo caraboo bytes kan bi nasti

[LimitedPowers]

I heard they only eat cheese.

[null and void]

Maybe it wasn’t a gouda idea to name her Velveeta...

[Free Bee]

LOL!

Five point sizzle.

[Eska]

We've been through many good shakers, huge burns, 30x40 miles across; you should hear the jets at treetop level & freight trains too when winds pick up. During Mentasta, we heard the trains coming down the valley for 3-4 days, had 6.0 aftershocks for 3 weeks. Had a huge flood here in Eagle this May, washed 1/3 the town & old village away, ice came in 30 feet high; water was 18 feet above any previous high water mark in memory. I live on high ground, needless to say.

When that initial quake in 03 was over, I looked at the wife and said: I really really really luv you, kinda funny but surreal.

We've been in Ak since early 90's, they can't run me outta this place; gonna die here someday.

[Islander7]

A 5.7 located 35 miles deep will be noticed by seismologists and maybe a can of beans on a store shelf, but I doubt it.

If you live in the coastal plains on liquefaction prone sediment, a 2.3 can take your breath away.

[Monkey Face]

But...but...I wasn’t there! How could there be an earthquake?

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