We just had a fairly large earthquake in Anchorage.

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.

What time was it at?

Its not even in the news yet.

oh here it is: www.adn.com...

from the 9th

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4.1 quake
earthquake.usgs.gov...

4.5 - FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
earthquake.usgs.gov...



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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.

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We have dozens a day but we don't feel most of them. North Pole is far enough away that we would not feel anything from there unless it were very large.

Alaska Volcano Observatory says:



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.

I check on the earthquakes here in AK every morning at this site:

ALASKA EARTHQUAKE MAP

When was this? I dont see anything on the map that says today.

I try to keep an eye on the quakes here because I live in southeast alaska and don't want to be caught offguard if there was a tsunami and I am out fishing.

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

MAP

There were actually two. We felt both here. They were only a few miles apart.

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.

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I dont know much about this site
hisz.rsoe.hu...
...but I picked it up from another thread around ATS. It seems to have semi-reliable and semi- up to date info.

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Thats a pretty cool map! Thanks for that! I bookmarked it!

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.

Isn't there a large volcano in Alaska (somewhere - I know it's a big place) that was looking like it was going to go soon? It was supposed to cause havoc to the oil industry up there. like half a billion dollers or something.

This is it: Mount Redoubt 110 miles south west of Anchorage.

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Redoubt has been erupting for a few months now. It grounded planes for a few hours a couple of times is all.

The Oil Terminal was undamaged and is still operating.

The page for Redoubt info.

These earthquakes are common and unrelated. That area between Willow, Big Lake and Skweetna has a 3.0+ 3 or more times a week I think. This quake will likely get 5 seconds on the news if that.