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Post by missouriboy on Dec 1, 2018 19:16:15 GMT
Have relative in Anchorage, if I get anything interesting will let you know. Makes me nervous at times living in WA when stuff like this happens. My guess is that the same unstable coastal soils/deposits that liquified and caused much of the damage in 1964, did so again. Hence the broken up transport network. The building I worked in downtown survived the 64 quake, but had a permanent "list". We sometimes organized gravity-only marble races from one side of the building to the other.
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Post by Ratty on Dec 1, 2018 20:29:48 GMT
Have relative in Anchorage, if I get anything interesting will let you know. Makes me nervous at times living in WA when stuff like this happens. My guess is that the same unstable coastal soils/deposits that liquified and caused much of the damage in 1964, did so again. Hence the broken up transport network. The building I worked in downtown survived the 64 quake, but had a permanent "list". We sometimes organized gravity-only marble races from one side of the building to the other. Was it like this? LINK
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Post by Ratty on Dec 1, 2018 20:32:35 GMT
Have relative in Anchorage, if I get anything interesting will let you know. Makes me nervous at times living in WA when stuff like this happens. Were there ripples in the Sound, Code? I think you'll be safe; to your South, it's a different matter.
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 1, 2018 23:52:01 GMT
My guess is that the same unstable coastal soils/deposits that liquified and caused much of the damage in 1964, did so again. Hence the broken up transport network. The building I worked in downtown survived the 64 quake, but had a permanent "list". We sometimes organized gravity-only marble races from one side of the building to the other. Was it like this? LINK No sweepers allowed.
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Post by sigurdur on Dec 2, 2018 5:29:32 GMT
Schucks. It was so much fun sweeping!
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 4, 2018 4:37:42 GMT
Some Home Video of Alaska / Anchorage Earthquake
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Post by blustnmtn on Dec 4, 2018 14:19:16 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 4, 2018 16:35:38 GMT
Yes. Quite right. But just for the record, Alaska's broken geology tends to damp the signal at distance. In the 80s we had a quake of very slightly less than 7 in the same general location of 1964, and no liquifaction occurred. We did move around a lot though. Alaskans are glad 1964 wasn't 10 miles away.
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Post by dontgetoutmuch on Dec 5, 2018 19:55:00 GMT
My home in Eagle River is 6 miles from the epicenter. Home was built in 1984. I have been through significant quakes up there, the last one was a 7.1 in Jan 2016 that was pretty darn scary. It was about 70 miles away IIRC. The house took no damage from that one. This one was much worse. I am temporarily in Virginia, so I was not there at the time, but it looks like the entire garage door (Steel people door into the house.) frame popped out of the wall, completely intact. We lost the mirror in the guest bathroom. A sealed gas fireplace insert popped out of its place. (Flex gas line, no leak.) The vanity in the master bath came free of the wall. (On that, the flex hoses to the sink were not damaged, but the drain pipes from the sinks were broken.) A couple of light fixtures, and many, many cracks in drywall. On the bright side, all fixable.
It is a miracle that no one was killed or seriously injured. A friend was getting out of the shower and has a funny story about how he ran outside in only his towel. He says he was praying "Please don't let me get killed wearing only a towel!" Another friend lost all of her dishes when they fell out of the kitchen cabinet.
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Post by sigurdur on Dec 6, 2018 1:39:45 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 6, 2018 2:18:40 GMT
Big few days in the plumbing system. Very systematic tolling of the bells. Very glad for that big plug of granite between me and New Madrid.
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Post by dontgetoutmuch on Dec 24, 2018 19:06:35 GMT
Major Eruption at Krakatau... Tidal wave spawned by flank collapse kills hundreds... Major Eruption at Etna...
The average number of ongoing eruptions at any one time is about 20. There are currently 42 erupting volcanoes in the world.
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Post by sigurdur on Dec 28, 2018 8:40:06 GMT
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Post by douglavers on Jan 13, 2019 4:50:06 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Jan 13, 2019 13:13:17 GMT
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