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I felt it here in Anchorage when I was on my way to bed. It felt like a shallow, rolling earthquake. It reminded me of a quake I experienced in 2001 in Washingt
by mordechai9000 9y ago
I felt it here in Anchorage when I was on my way to bed. It felt like a shallow, rolling earthquake. It reminded me of a quake I experienced in 2001 in Washington state. The shaking went on for what I thought was 30 seconds. My wife woke up but my kids did not.
Within a couple of minutes, I saw the reported magnitude, depth, and location on the USGS earthquake site, https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/ https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/.
About the same time, Google started showing a tsunami alert:
https://www.google.org/publicalerts/alert?aid=43774f005241acb5&source=ogs&authuser=0 https://www.google.org/publicalerts/alert?aid=43774f005241ac...
We are in no danger from a tsunami here in Anchorage.
The alert shows potential tsunami waves arriving at coastal towns over the next couple of hours, with the first potential wave arriving in Kodiak in a few minutes. I have no idea how likely these waves are, but 7.9 is big. I am sure a lot of people are scrambling for high ground now.
God speed and be safe.