No damage but it lasted for nearly a minute. Our building swayed quite a bit while it was going on. I'd guess it was in the 4.5 range in Anchorage. I don't know yet where it was centered.

I saw there have been a couple in the North Pole region as well.

Interesting.

It was between Willow and Skweetna. They don't have a magnitude yet. That is about 50 miles from here.

This is the strongest so far this year. Not many live over there so little chance of any problems. It got everyone in my office woke up however.

news said a 4.1 on that day...that is pretty signifigant, dunno why it wasn't on any other news...eeesh.

Alaska Volcano Observatory says:

2009-06-22 11:39:19
A regional tectonic earthquake occurred at 11:28 AKDT and was felt throughout South Central Alaska. This event is not related to Redoubt. The West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center has a preliminary magnitude of 5.3 and a location 30 miles southwest of Talkeetna.

On seismometers, multiple aftershocks can be seen. There was a foreshock too, before the main event.

Weird. It disappeared off the map. They must be updating it.

My chair was rocking and normally a 3 to 3.5 I seldom even feel.

OK it was a 5.7!!! 48 miles from where I'm siting.

Yeah sorry, didnt mean to imply that it was the same.

I am seeing Southern Alaska, 20 minutes ago...preliminary magnitude 5.7

And

Svalbard region 1 hour ago....prelim magnitude 5.4

CNN just announced it.

5.7

Thats a pretty good sized quake, the state gets about one of those every couple of weeks/months in various places.

I'm lucky, where I am quake activity is rare, though we do feel tremors every great once and a while. Here the worry is more about tsunami's.

But even those are hard to reach us because I live on an island deep in the panhandle which is surrounded by lots of other islands and mountains.

On my realtime seismic monitor I see three aftershocks of similar magnitude, the third occurred just a while ago.

EDIT
A fourth and a fifth also occurred immediately after, but of much lower magnitude.

[edit on 2009/6/22 by Shirakawa]

That is an isolated area. I doubt any damage was done.

Here it was just enough to rock my office chair for a few seconds and the leaves on the plants were swaying.

The aftershocks are not now being felt here. That area has constant quakes.