Massive earthquake rocks Alaska... magnitude 7.9!
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if its not CNN news, then its not news period. The world we live in gets its news by Fox and CNN and most people figure if its not newsworthy enough to make TV then they don't want to know about it. I've been in 2 major earthquakes in my lifetime (1989 in bay area, 1999 in Taiwan) and the people of alaska have my sympathies as earthquakes are some of the scariest things you'll ever encounter if its big enough. The 99 earthquake in Taiwan was so big, I was scared sh*tless for over 30 seconds, as it occured in the morningtime and woke me up with a jolt. I couldn't sleep for the next day because of the numerous little quakes and aftershocks that kept coming. ANd with the living structure of the buildings in Taiwan, a small aftershock may be all it takes to collapse the buildling you are sitting in
yea i visited my gramps in taipei a few years back, i can only imagine those buildings in an earthquake. we were pretty worried about him but he was fine 
Well I'm in North Pole (about 5 miles from Fairbanks, pretty much the hard city hit) and it hit here pretty good. Was really weird to see the whole house shaking... though I do live here, so It wasn't a suprise.
if its not CNN news, then its not news period
What a pity you have wrapped yourself up in such a tiny world. If it isn't on CNN then it isn't news.
What a pity you have wrapped yourself up in such a tiny world. If it isn't on CNN then it isn't news.
So that's what happened. I'm in upstate NY, and I was leading a tour of my high school tonight. We have a seismograph, and right when our tour got to that point it started going crazy. The teacher who runs it was like, alright everyone, this is our seismograph, it measures earthqua.. holy sh!t, it's going crazy! Check this out! Feel bad for the people in Alaska right now though.
Errr.... guys, this wasn't a bad quake... damage wise. The only thing that I've seen or heard on the news here is some cracks in the highway. Otherwise, you don't need to feel bad for us. We're are somewhat used to the quakes and most buildings are built to withstand bad ones. This isn't like the quakes they've had the last few years in Japan or anything, nothing much was damaged and nobody was hurt.
Definitely had me wondering what was going on, it woke me up from a sound sleep. I think the extent of the damage around my place was a broken sconce.
It shook my apartment enough to spill my drink and I?m a few hundred miles away in Anchorage.
Andy
Andy
I could never live in an earthquake-heavy area, I would have a heart attack.
Good to hear everyone from here chime in to say they're ok.
~robyn
Good to hear everyone from here chime in to say they're ok.
~robyn
Yeah the quake was pretty odd to say the least. I was just chillin in front of my comp and my place felt like it was "shimmying" from side to side. Lasted a good 30 seconds. All the time I was like, "please don't get any worse". haha.
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My kids were upstairs in our two story house. I made them get under doorways, and so did me and GrimmX. For me it was pretty damn scary. I was really wishing I could see my kids; instead I was shouting instructions up the stairs. A picture fell off the wall, and a stack of mail slid off the end of my computer desk.
The thing with an earthquake that is so scary (to me) is that I don't know which way the thing is headed. Is it building up? Is this part the worst? Is it going to escalate or fade? It's a very helpless feeling, especially when you consider that your loved ones are in it with you.
When your home is shaking and moving, it is very unsettling (no pun intended). I mean, I'm a civil engineer, damn it, and structures aren't supposed to move!!!! :Q. And I just moved into this house like 3 months ago. I already can't remember if I got earthquake insurance (it is NOT included in a standard home owner policy). And this house was built by the previous owner. How good of a job did he do? I guess he did a 7.5~7.9 worth of a job.
Phew.
The thing with an earthquake that is so scary (to me) is that I don't know which way the thing is headed. Is it building up? Is this part the worst? Is it going to escalate or fade? It's a very helpless feeling, especially when you consider that your loved ones are in it with you.
When your home is shaking and moving, it is very unsettling (no pun intended). I mean, I'm a civil engineer, damn it, and structures aren't supposed to move!!!! :Q. And I just moved into this house like 3 months ago. I already can't remember if I got earthquake insurance (it is NOT included in a standard home owner policy). And this house was built by the previous owner. How good of a job did he do? I guess he did a 7.5~7.9 worth of a job.
Phew.
Looks like there was some of Alaskan pipeline support structures were damaged by the quake but the pipeline itself is okay. The engineers had designed the system to survive an 8.5 quake. This was a good real-world test of that design. My hat's off to them. Their design survived, with only minor damage, one of the largest earthquakes in the past 75 years.
I'm just waiting for the New Madrid fault to give way again...we're due...
I'm just waiting for the New Madrid fault to give way again...we're due...
There was a fairly noticeable aftershock at 10:55 P.M. AST last night. Anyone else feel it? I have felt only two or three out of all of the ones that have occurred.
Nothing here in Nome... unless there was another small aftershock last night. But I think it was just the wind rattling the house.
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