Earthquake.
If you’re in Anchorage, yup, that was an earthquake. It wasn’t particularly big, but the house definitely shook and all the leaves on my house plants were trembling. Buf the dog is sitting on my foot looking at me, a bit concerned.
So, nothing serious. It just seems like if you have a blog and there’s an earthquake, you ought to say something! I’ll post back when I figure out where the epicenter was and how large it was on the Richter scale.
Here’s the LINK to a page that will keep you posted on all recent quakes in Alaska. There have been 17 today so far, and they were all pretty small. There’s no report yet of how big this one was, but it’s epicenter was “The Cook Inlet Region” so it was fairly close, and the time was 9:09am.
When you look at that map, it’s another reminder of how big Alaska is, and how very much this land is geologically active!
UPDATE:
44 miles WSW of Homer, 158 miles SW of Anchorage, 26 miles East of Mt. Augustine volcano.
62 miles deep.
6.1 5.73 (revised) on the Richter Scale. Pretty respectable.
AKM I’m glad everyone is OK! If I were ANYWHERE near Anchorage during an earthquake I would think it’s a big deal after what happened in 1964. Shudder shudder (no joke).
My stomach always does a little flip flog with earthquakes. This one must’ve been close to Anchorage.
162 mi. SW of Anchorage
20 mi. ENE of Augustine volcano
No size yet.
Yep, our lights were swaying here in Eagle River. Must have really been felt in Homer.
I felt it strong in Homer! Sure is a great way to jump up out of bed wide awake!
Glad everyone is fine…and listen to the dog. Animals do hear, feel and sense things long before us humans.
I knew I felt it, and my husband didn’t believe me… 6.1 according to this http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html
Yup, woke me up in Anchorage after late-night blogging.
From the Palmer Tsunami Observatory: 5.7 and 50 miles east of Homer.
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/events/eventmap.php
6.1 is no joke. Glad to hear everyone is OK so far. Here in the SF Bay Area, we feel your pain. Here is hoping the news stays good on this one.
Sheesh! And we thought California was active…you got us beat by a long shot!
We felt a good jolt over here in west Anchorage, too. I’m sure my brother’s family, who live in Homer, felt a little excitement.
Anytime we feel an earthquake here in California, we report it! Follow this link:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/dyfi/
Thx b.
Here’s were I go…
http://www.aeic.alaska.edu/Seis/recent/sum/index.html
Alaska Earthquake Info Center:
http://www.aeic.alaska.edu/recent/sub/index.html
Any Tsunami warnings we should know about in the state?
We had a little one here in So. California yesterday. I’ll bet it’s not a coincidence. But only because I am a conspiracy theorist. Through no fault of my own.
Thanks for the info! Idiot me was scouring the internet looking for info on the earthquake…should have come here first.
Thanks AKM…should have known you would have put something up for us and thanks everyone for the links!
Sounded really bad and I am relieved to hear that all is well – hope good news continues to come out of Alaska on this.
No tsunami threat. I just use this because it covers the West Coast and AK.
wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/events/eventmap.php
I was on my feet at work and didn’t feel a thing. Lot’s of people did though.
Didn’t feel a thing in Wasilla.
6.1! Wow! SWWNBN must be stomping her feet about the media again. Seriously though, I hope everyone is safe.
I felt it here in Wasilla, but it was so slight that at first I thought it might have been caused by my washer on the spin cycle. My kids didn’t even notice it.
Wow! Looks like it’s been downgraded to a 5.7, but still, what a jolt!. Did it shake or roll or both? Hopefully even those closer didn’t have any major damage like in Nanwalek, Port Graham, or Seldovia. Let’s be careful with those aftershocks!
Slept right through – which is unusual for me!
@ Trini
“SWWNBN must be stomping her feet about the media again”
GOOD ONE!
I just checked the Alaska Volcano Observatory and the status for Augustine is Green which means at or near normal levels of background seismicity, may currently display anomalous behavior but not considered to be at a dangerous level of unrest. Augustine does apparently lie within the area of uplift resulting from the 1964 Alaska earthquake…
6.1 is a big one, glad all is well. Ours was smaller here in Los Angeles last night, but I felt it. To AKmama – Wasilla is a small town – have you seen baby Tripp or Bristol yet?
There’s humor to be found even in an earthquake. One evening when we lived in Homer, I was boiling water for spaghetti, and the lid on the pot really began to rattle – I thought the water had started boiling, and went to put in the pasta, when I looked down the hall, and here comes my husband, hauling up his trousers. He’d been in the bathroom, and said when he felt the water lap his butt, he knew he didn’t want to die like that and have it in his obituary, so he got out quick.
I would think there would be fear of a tsunami, though. Hope not.
We had a 4.8 a few years ago in Northern NY.
I never realized how loud earthquakes were. My cat hid under the shed for 2 days after that one.
Glad everyone was OK.
That was a good story tigerwine. Thanks for sharing…
Hey CA mudpups, did you see today’s article in the LA Times, saying new evidence shows the “Big One” is really over due on the Carrizo Plain section of the San Andreas? Check it out: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-fault-quakes24-2009jan24,0,7734479.story
I didn’t feel it in Wasilla either .. But the 7.9 we had some years ago was the biggest one in my 35 years here. Now that was something.. 6 point quakes are common here and not much concern.. if we have 7 or larger they get scary.
Tigerwine
Sounds like you had a tsunami in your toilet.
tho i’m a faithful reader, took an earthquake to get me to delurk.
Here’s a site i like to check frequently, gives a global perspective, IRIS seismic monitor (a university consortium sponsored by the National Science Foundation)
A woman named Morgan has had a blog up for ten days. It has had 15,000 hits in that time period.
Go to http://palinpics4truth.blogspot.com/
and see the statistics. Also, she has a newly discovered Sarah Palin picture that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Andrea Gusty picture is fradulent.
Don’t take my word for it. See for yourself.http://palinpics4truth.blogspot.com/
@ newdealfarmgrrrlll
Welcome, de-lurker! Great description.
Sounds like someone might be in the mood for a little Cars song… Shake it up. …
OT ….. I receive the NY Times Book Review section on Saturdays so I’m calling this to all your collective attentions….
Tomorrow’s book review section has a review of “Fifty Miles From Tomorrow
A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People” by William L. Iggiagruk Hensley.
Have a nice weekend folks…
p.s. re the book…Hope I spelled Hensley’s name correctly. I’m doing this without my eyeglasses.
Hah! And I didn’t feel a thing in Wasilla! Of course, maybe being busy roughhousing with the kiddo has something to do with it…
Maybe GOD is sending a signal to the Legislature, to shove Sarah out the opened door into the cold
Glad to hear everyone is fine. Someone said there was an earthquake in Los Angeles, but we didnt feel it here in “Victorville, California.
The quake shook our timber-framed house pretty good, but there’s no damage. It was a roller, not a jolter.
For those of you in earthquake country who have delicate things that can fall off of shelves and break in a quake, they make a putty that you can stick to the bottom of things and stick the things to a shelf. I think they call it “museum putty.” One of the neighbors has a 50 year collection of porcelain horses in a small china cabinet. She’s tied the cabinet to the wall and stuck the horses to the shelves with the putty. She remembers the ’64 quake and how it trashed their house and emptied all of the shelves.
Out there in front of Augustine is a subduction zone, where the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate meet. I can never remember which one is diving underneath the other one, but that wasn’t a fault-line quake, it was a tectonic plate quake.
Mount Saint Augustine is an active volcano. Real active. Alaskans get to enjoy geologic processes in real time : )
J faith L (12:31:53) :
Thanks about mentioning the book. Read the review and will be going to the Public Library to reserve it….
…wondering…does waz.er.name ever read? Other than a script, that is….
Thank you for the note and the comments….NPR here [Milwaukee] said
‘centered around Homer” and of course thought of you all, happy that all
seems to be well. Having checked on Mudflats first.
Would it be inappropriate to note that one article about the Obamas’elegance
and the white dress that it was like a ‘wedding between them and the nation’…
and then THE EARTH MOVED
ltty, nyc
I keep the local library on their toes… let’s see if they have this one. The problem is that up in Rockland County they seldom let you reserve brand new books. you have to spot them on the new book shelf. What do you think of Gillibrand’s appt.? You know she really does a good job on serving her constituents… always going around to see what the problems are.
I’ve been enjoying Mudflats so much. It has been both a pleasure and an education all at once.
Checking in from Germany after seeing an earthquake hit. Glad everyone is okay. Hang on!!!
Can I make a suggestion? Would you put a clock on your front page so that I can see what time it is in AK. Counting back all of those hours I get confused. Thanks.
NO damage reported in Homer and the K-Bay communities.
Lasted about 20 seconds here. The shaking was moderate and the last 10 seconds it was really rolling. Nothing fell and all looks well around the house.
We live above Homer.
Photos of the Augustine eruption a few years ago. Like many in Homer, we have a birdseye view of it and the newly realized volcano that is Mt Douglas (AKA 4 peaks)
http://images.google.com/images?q=augustine%20volcano%20eruption&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
grewingk @ 13:26:51
Yes, it is called “museum putty” but it has to be very carefully placed, very evenly smoothed on the bottom of the piece and even that does not guarantee that the piece will remain standing. Yes, I have been through San Andres fault quakes, now living in Kentucky.
I live in Anchorage, and I didn’t feel anything!
5.7 is pretty respectable….I’m glad everyone is safe, but doesn’t it scare you that SHE is in charge and (look at Emmonak) what if it was bad?? I would be really scared, not just by AKM said 17 so far today? But by the fact you have a idiot in charge up there.
I’ve been offline today with computer problems…so this is the first I’ve seen, even ADN didn’t send a notice about it? Their like 2 days late with the news. Just glad everyone is safe….
@Trini, SP isn’t that powerful, she couldn’t rattle a china closet in the Whitehouse.
@nabrum, I’m with you, if I were to take a guess I’d say it was Mother Earth showing how displeased she is about the Villager’s being let down yet again by the Gov’s office.
As near as I can tell from most of the reports I’ve read, no real damage was done today, glad you are all safe and listening.
Just a moderate quake, the kind you like to feel.
Also relatively far from population centers and not strong enough to generate any seismic sea waves (tsunamis).
Re: one of the first comments, this earthquake released approximately 1/32000 of the energy the 1964 quake released.
The 1964 quake, if I recall correctly, was the largest earthquake ever recorded by modern seismometers.
The USGS also has a global site for earthquake monitoring and if you are near to the hypocenter (the point on the surface above the epicenter), you can report your experience of the quake.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/
It is also interesting to read the experiences of others in your area regarding how they felt the quake.
Cheers,
@Muppet2(14:46:38) :
Checking in from Germany after seeing an earthquake hit. Glad everyone is okay. Hang on!!!
Can I make a suggestion? Would you put a clock on your front page so that I can see what time it is in AK. Counting back all of those hours I get confused. Thanks.
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Alaska is GMT minus 9 hours. IIRC, Germany is GMT plus one hour.
ED (12:12:27) :
Tigerwine
Sounds like you had a tsunami in your toilet.
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I think a “tsunami” in a toilet is really a seiche–from the USGS:
Seismic seiches are standing waves set up on rivers, reservoirs, ponds, and lakes when seismic waves from an earthquake pass through the area. They are in direct contrast to tsunamis which are giant sea waves created by the sudden uplift of the sea floor.
A “t-seiche”, perhaps?
I just know we are due for a big one soon. It may be Alaska, California or somewhere in the south! Yep, they just found a fault line in the south they say could produce a 7+ and there is no way the people in that area are prepared for such a massive quake. It is time for more ground sensors such as those produced and used by Quakefinder (www.quakefinder.com) to be installed in quake zones so we can seriously get down to the business of finding precursors to the major quakes. We can’t save the buildings but we could save the people and animals.