[stars & stripes forever]

7.0 earthquake in ALASKA.
DUTCHSINSE is making comments now.
https://www.twitch.tv/dutchsinseofficial

[KC_Lion]

Alaska Ping.

Hope everyone is safe!

[Bigbrown]

What a ride, that was the largest earthquake we felt in 20 years of living in Alaska. My understanding is that there are bridges and ramps that are down in Anchorage. They’re saying 7.2 about 30 miles south of me which puts at 7 miles north of Anchorage. All my reloading equipment is on the floor in my garage, cabinets were open and paint is all over the place and of course pictures came off the walls in the house. 30 minutes later and we’re still experiencing aftershocks.

[ETL]

A TSUNAMI WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE COOK INLET AREA AND SOUTHERN KENAI PENINSULA IN ALASKA

Event details:
Preliminary magnitude 7.0 (Mwp) earthquake / Lat: 61.300, Lon: -149.900 at 2018-11-30T17:29:28 UTC Tsunami warnings mean that a tsunami with significant inundation is expected or occurring. Warnings indicate that widespread dangerous coastal flooding accompanied by powerful currents are possible and may continue for several hours after the initial wave arrival.

Recommended actions:

Actions to protect human life and property willvary within tsunami warning areas.If you are in a tsunami warning area: Evacuate inland or to higher ground above and beyond designated tsunami hazard zones or move to an upper floor of a multi-story building depending on your situation.Additional Information and Next Update: The tsunami message will remain in effect until further notice. Refer to the internet site tsunami.gov for more information. This message will be updated in 30 minutes or sooner if the situation warrants.

[SamAdams76]

Looks like a big one and major impact on Alaska's most populous city.

The tsunami warnings are issued automatically in these situations as a precaution I believe. Very rarely do the tsunamis pan out and hopefully that trend continues.

[married21]

Prayers up for the Alaskans affected. Especially that electricity and heat are restored quickly.

[SamAdams76]

Here's a photo from just outside Anchorage airport.

[wny]

it’s almost certain that within a few hours, somewhere, some idiot will blame climate change...

[sodpoodle]

****prompting people to run out of offices and seek shelter under office desks.*****

?????

They are carrying their desks outside?

Terrible writing!!!!!

[Mariner]

A 6.6 is not a huge earthquake.

[tcrlaf]

KFQD is live on TuneIn.

Another aftershock just now.
Lots of rockfalls, residents callling in damage reports.

[blueplum]

we tried phoning relatives in Big Lake (where it hit) but all the cell circuits are busy of course

[Innovative]

USGS says it was a 7.0. Link to picture below:

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/#%7B%22autoUpdate%22%3A%5B%22autoUpdate%22%5D%2C%22basemap%22%3A%22terrain%22%2C%22feed%22%3A%221day_all%22%2C%22listFormat%22%3A%22default%22%2C%22mapposition%22%3A%5B%5B37.43997405227057%2C-215.5078125%5D%2C%5B76.67978490310692%2C-88.41796875%5D%5D%2C%22overlays%22%3A%5B%5D%2C%22restrictListToMap%22%3A%5B%22restrictListToMap%22%5D%2C%22search%22%3Anull%2C%22sort%22%3A%22newest%22%2C%22timezone%22%3A%22utc%22%2C%22viewModes%22%3A%5B%22map%22%2C%22list%22%5D%2C%22timeZone%22%3A%22local%22%2C%22event%22%3Anull%7D

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[crusty old prospector]

And it burns, burns, burns. The Ring of Fire.

[43north]

An old friend was 16 and walking home to the Turnagain neighborhood during the Good Friday 1964 quake. It knocked him to the ground and he described the ground wave deformations as being like a 3’ chop on the ocean. He got bounced. He watched as a crevasse opened and his neighbor’s house fell in. Fortunately no one was home there. Can you imagine how terrifying that would be?

This quake was at a relatively shallow depth so the shaking would have been out of proportion to the Richter number compared to deeper quakes.

[Beowulf9]

Just saw this on Twitter: "This is the only highway from Anchorage to Wasilla/Palmer and the rest of north and east Alaska after this morning's earthquake".

[BenLurkin]

Hate earthquakes.

[smokingfrog]

[MinuteGal]

There's the famous "San Andreas Fault"...and the "San Jacinto Fault"....now, of course, we have the "It's Trump's Fault".

Leni