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Originally posted by Jimbo54:

There is a tsunami warning in effect as well.

Jim

How long will it be before the tsunami warning expires?



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Originally posted by tatortodd:
2000Z-71 and Newmexican. Are y'all alright?

USGS is calling this morning's earthquake a M7.0 about 7 mi north of Anchorage.

There is a tsunami warning in effect as well.

Jim

Yep. Given the location the tsunami it won't affect anything outside of Cook Inlet unless it causes a landslide in a different fjord (e.g. Whittier or Valdez).

Yeah, that sucked!

Worked last night and just crawled into bed when it hit.. Luckily it was a very short duration. Broken pictures and mirrors upstairs, loss of power and a refrigerator that walked 3 feet across the kitchen floor. Have to go into work again tonight. Hopefully power and heat come back on before it gets too chilly indoors.

They just cancelled the tsunami warning.

Lots of pictures and some video

https://www.foxnews.com/us/ala...os-and-photos-reveal

Lots of friends on FB saying broken dishes, pictures, etc. but so far nobody injured.

Lots of people live in Matanuska Valley and work in Anchorage so they'll probably have to inspect bridges (especially the huge ones over Eagle River) before they open the highway.

Meh...it's only a 7.0. Pffft....

Earthquakes are cool if you ask me, although a bit scary when riding them out. I've experienced quite a few in southern CA and most recently a 5.9er here that knocked my ceiling fan/light down.

Felt a small one when I lived in Okinawa, one of those things you cannot really understand unless you experience it.

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
2000Z-71 and Newmexican. Are y'all alright?

USGS is calling this morning's earthquake a M7.0 about 7 mi north of Anchorage.

All good here. The quake mixed with the ice storm has made for an interesting day though.

Wow! The '89 Loma Prieta was only 6.9M.

I haven't seen anything official to back up my theory. It felt like a short duration which probably limited the damage that it could've done.

7.0 that'll pucker yourself up.

I was coming out of the Embarcadero BART station (subway) in downtown San Francisco when the '89 Loma Prieta quake hit. As I'm riding up the escalator, I see the stone facade along the stairway from the surface moving and flexing, start to hear the rumble & screams, I look up to see the buildings above swaying back n'forth. Escalator does an emergency stop and I run up to the surface, seeing buildings all throughout the Financial District swaying, dust clouds forming from the stone building facings rubbing against each other, the overhead electrical lines for the buses swinging and snapping, and a handful of buildings losing their front walls because of unreinforced brick, debris everywhere.

That night was interesting. The Marina was on fire, burnt smell of buildings and blown transformers hung in the air. Store fronts all had cracked or, busted glass, aisles were a mess. People volunteered to direct traffic as electricity was out and watch for looters as SFPD was stretched thin. Sirens wailed all night, as aftershocks continued for several days afterwards.

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7.0 that'll pucker yourself up.

I was coming out of the Embarcadero BART station (subway) in downtown San Francisco when the '89 Loma Prieta quake hit.

What did you do when you were in the midst of everything to avoid getting hit/hurt? Do you have any suggestions on anything you wished you would have done to prepare before this happened? Supposedly we're due for a 7.2 or so earthquake one day here in the area I live in Utah. I'd be grateful for suggestions from someone who's been through a big one.

Yikes! Looks like so far 140 aftershocks between M2.5 and M5.7. 19 are M4.0 and greater, and 4 are M5.0 and greater.

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7.0 that'll pucker yourself up.

I was coming out of the Embarcadero BART station (subway) in downtown San Francisco when the '89 Loma Prieta quake hit.

What did you do when you were in the midst of everything to avoid getting hit/hurt? Do you have any suggestions on anything you wished you would have done to prepare before this happened? Supposedly we're due for a 7.2 or so earthquake one day here in the area I live in Utah. I'd be grateful for suggestions from someone who's been through a big one.

Open space is your friend during an earthquake, get away from buildings as falling glass, brickwork and facades will come down. In the Pacific States, building codes have largely made buildings able to withstand a full collapse, the idea is to remain upright, flex & sway, to allow occupants to survive; you may get injured (glass, falling fixtures, thrown furniture) but likely not get crushed in a Hollywood-style catastrophic collapse. If inside, get underneath a table or, a load-bearing doorway get away from windows, walls, and shelving/book cases.

Preparation is basically have a home kit and shelter in-place, if possible. The kit should nominally have: Three days of water and an equal supply of food stuffs; your water heater will also contain fresh water. Make sure there's a wrench to shut-off your home gas lines, I know many homes that have a wrench right next to the gas valve; gas leaks and the resulting fires was the #1 cause of destruction of the 1906 fire that devastated SF. Public utility workers will sweep through every street with electronic sniffers searching for gas leaks immediately afterwards before power grid is evaluated and restored. Batteries, flashlight/headlamp and radio are key, as are glow-sticks, N95 face mask/respirator, work gloves, 1st aid kit and hi-viz belt/vest. The air, I remember hanging heavy with soot and dust, things were pleasantly quiet. Street lights were knocked-out for at least a week, so visibility for drivers/pedestrians was somewhat risky...lotta bad drivers out there.

FEMA and Red Cross will usually set-up at local schools to assist the affected areas and displaced. There's a variety of gov websites with checklists and Amazon is full of pre-made earthquake kits.

If I could add as another survivor of the Loma Prieta...sometimes you can hear the big one coming. I did.

I was walking down the street, and suddenly heard a high-pitched whine coming from nowhere. I knew what P-waves were, the high-frequency waves that travel faster and precede the main shaker by a few seconds. I said to myself, a big earthquake is about to hit. I had just enough time to hunker myself down into a stable karate stance, and then sure enough it hit. Even prepared it was all I could do to not be knocked down. Without the extra warning, I definitely would have been thrown off my feet.

I left Anchorage a few days ago. Glad I wasn't stuck there. I got a call just before this one, this morning, asking for a volunteer to do a recovery flight through Anchorage out of Japan. Looks like that fell through.

Late 90's I was in Palmdale, California in the Rio Mirada hotel, upper floor. Middle of the night, someone got in my room, began shaking the bed, or so I thought. I sat up, not too awake, didn't see anyone. I looked out the window and saw quite a storm. Palm trees were snapping back and forth like rubber toys, water in the pool flying out in big waves. I wasn't steady on my feet. I was standing, by my feet kept swinging to the left of my shoulders, then to the right and it felt as though the whole building were moving.

"This is California," I thought. I took my shoes and clothes and went to the fire escape, and exited that way. Downstairs, nothing. No wind, no rain, no storm. A couple of guys standing, chatting. I dressed and wandered around to the office.

"This may sounds stupid," I said to the two girls behind the desk, "but I could swear the building was just moving. Anyone feel anything?"

I don't recall the magnitude, but it was strong, and opened a crack across the mojave desert. Not much damage.

Our flight engineer one floor up, however, who liked to sleep sans clothing, didn't take it nearly as well. He shot out of his room naked and ricocheted down the hallway, banging on every door, screaming "Earthquake! Earthquake." His door slammed shut behind him, everyone came out of their room to find a hysterical naked guy running up and down the hall, and by then there was no earthquake.

It's been an interesting night at work. The hospital has been in disaster mode since this morning. Main elevator is out which has made things interesting.

Thankfully nothing serious, a whole lot of bumps, bruises and lacerations from falling or having things fall on them. Of course there also has to be some panic attacks as well. Almost comical to hear the carrying on from the psych patients when an aftershock hits.

The townhouse I'm staying in had very minor damage all upstairs. We lost power for a few hours. A broken mirror, some broken pictures, a few broken plates, a couple of small drywall cracks and the one I cannot figure out the physics of the refrigerator walked across the floor. No damage at all on the lower level. I thought it was strange until I finally figured out the upper level moves more. It's like a tree blowing in the wind, the top moves a hell of a lot more than the bottom.

A few of my coworkers were not as lucky. They had more damage to their homes like countertops pulling away from walls, shelving units in garages falling on vehicles, extensive drywall cracking, and kitchens covered in broken glass and spilled food. There is some infrastructure damage that's going to take a while to repair. It's also making getting out of Anchorage a challenge.

The most horrifying thing for us at work is the pictures of liquor stores with shelving units tipped over and broken bottles on the floor. If every liquor store in town is like that, this whole city is going into withdrawal and it's going to be absolute hell at work dealing with it.