7.0 Earthquake just outside of Anchorage

And tsunami warnings have been issued.

Hope any posters here stay safe!!

(I could link news, but there's a lot of it, and it will be very fluid as this develops)

Dang.

I worked up there for my uncle back in the early '80s.   Unfortunately, I've lost touch with most everyone I knew up there, but that sure doesn't keep me from worrying about them.

Don't we have a couple GRM'rs up there?  SKierd?

Isn't 7.0 berkeleying huge?

The tsunami warning has been cancelled.

The area in in The Ring of Fire, and is built with the possibility of earthquakes on mind, since the 9.2 Good Friday Quake that hit in 1964.

Streetwiseguy said:

Isn't 7.0 berkeleying huge?

7.0 is a major quake but I wouldn’t call it huge…each whole number represents a factor 10 increase in amplitude and a factor 31 increase in energy release…earthquake tolerant structures usually don’t start getting berked up in mass until you get into the 8’s.

That must have been a wild ride.

In reply to Nick Comstock :

Based on a personal report from a poster (on a hockey board I watch) who lives in Anchorage, that looks to be the worst damage.  He's very thankful to the engineers who built the buildings to withstand this quake.  

Grtechguy said:

Don't we have a couple GRM'rs up there?  SKierd?

IIRC, he's up near Fairbanks, 300+ miles north and inland.

Family in Anchorage was driving when the quake hit. Their car suddenly veered to the right and they thought they'd cut a tire down or broken something in the suspension. Turns out it was just the road moving underneath them.

They've got a decent mess to clean up at work and home, but no major structural damage, just stuff falling off of shelves and walls, etc.

I’m in  south upper hillside Anchorage. House is trashed but livable. Every shelf, mirror, plate whatever is broken. Structurally our house seems sound but some doors don’t shut and some cracked walls. Power is intermittent and heating with the wood stove.

We’re safe it’s just a giant mess. My office building is standing but a huge mess.

And 7.0 that the epicenter is less than 10 miles away is scary as E36 M3.

RX Reven' said:

Streetwiseguy said:

Isn't 7.0 berkeleying huge?

7.0 is a major quake but I wouldn’t call it huge…each whole number represents a factor 10 increase in amplitude and a factor 31 increase in energy release…earthquake tolerant structures usually don’t start getting berked up in mass until you get into the 8’s.

Lots of variables in that. Depth of the quake , epicenter location. We also had dozen of aftershocks, one of which was another 5.8. There are a lot of buildings that are standing but are still berkeleyed.

Dude I’m glad you’re ok. 

Now we have ascertained most people are ok and the area was moderately well prepared for such an event, can I go back to the wonderfully unintentional pun in the first post? 

alfadriver said:

And tsunami warnings have been issued.

...it will be very fluid as this develops)

Awesome...

Also, my best wishes to anyone dealing with the aftermath of this quake.  

Nick Comstock said:

That must have been a wild ride.

Looks like the same guy on this pic I saw earlier today. He is one lucky SOB. 

crankwalk said:

I’m in  south upper hillside Anchorage. House is trashed but livable. Every shelf, mirror, plate whatever is broken. Structurally our house seems sound but some doors don’t shut and some cracked walls. Power is intermittent and heating with the wood stove.

 

We’re safe it’s just a giant mess. My office building is standing but a huge mess.

 

And 7.0 that the epicenter is less than 10 miles away is scary as E36 M3.

Doors not closing can be somewhat serious, means something has really shifted in the house. Be careful

Here's a footage compliation I found on reddit

https://youtu.be/-n_ncvFGklE

In reply to crankwalk :

glad to hear you are Ok

What are the Temps up there now ?

When something that big and close to Los Angeles hits down here  it's going to be terrible , 

The last big quake here was 100 miles from the downtown LA , 

Are there many roads like the photos above ? And many bridges down?

Be safe , stuff can still fall on you in the aftershocks

californiamilleghia said:

In reply to crankwalk :

glad to hear you are Ok

What are the Temps up there now ?

When something that big and close to Los Angeles hits down here  it's going to be terrible , 

The last big quake here was 100 miles from the downtown LA , 

Are there many roads like the photos above ? And many bridges down?

Be safe , stuff can still fall on you in the aftershocks

Temps are all over the place. It was 20s with snow, Upper 30s now, 65 mph wind gusts in the glen alps neighborhood in the Chugach mountains where I live and heavy snow for a few days. The snow storm is going to slow the road and utility work even more but it’s December in Alaska. We have had over 100 aftershocks 4 of which in the 5.0 range with the epicenter about 25 miles away. If I wasn’t taking work conference calls and fixing the house I would be hammered drunk in pajamas right now. 

Some high notes :

Family safe.

Motorcycles danced in the garage but somehow didn’t fall and nothing fell on them.

guitars stayed on the wall because I spent the extra 5 bucks on the locking hangers. 

Barring terrible news from a structural engineer, we did pretty good.

In reply to crankwalk :

If i were your customer i would understand you being a little tipsy and in your pajamas, stoke the fire and stay safe. We usually had some Yukon Jack on the slopes back in my younger days

Antihero said:

 

Doors npt closing can be somewhat serious, means something has really shifted in the house. Be careful

The bottom of my stairs to the garage aren't level and it because it appears the garage itself has dropped an inch. Our house faces west and so the epicenter is 20 miles north of us with the waves from the quake getting worse on the far end of the house. Makes sense. Most of the drywall cracks and the 2 doors with issues are right in the middle of the house, which is an A-frame log home with 28 ft peak in the living room.  The exterior of the house is all log and thus flexed around and seems 100% intact.

Let me give you visual.

Older picture from last spring, but this gives you an idea how tall the roof peak is. Looking at the front of the house, the waves came from far left.

Excuse the mess

All of the stress cracks start there and then the second slab for the garage (furthest away from the waves) just appears to have subtly dropped an inch I guess from how the stairs are positioned. 

The crazy thing is because of the snow on the ground (before the windstorm last night) you could see the cracks and lines in the ground showing what the waves were doing as it came through.

We have power and we're warm, though some of the damage is slightly sketchy we are doing better than a whole lot of people. Before I start repairs, I've decided to hold off until the rush on engineers has died down and they can look at some things first. I don't want to conceal a problem that needs to be seen.

Side note: The 4x4 community is already out and about I see.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq5ArRmhBIx/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=5xp11hr53nro

 I have a friend from California that was hiking during an earthquake, he was in an open Meadow and saw the ground raise up before him like a wave. He was not easily flustered but said this really freaked him out.

In reply to crankwalk :

We live in surprisingly similar houses.  I’m also in a log home with green roof and trim and a very high ceiling in the living room.

TRoglodyte said:

 I have a friend from California that was hiking during an earthquake, he was in an open Meadow and saw the ground raise up before him like a wave. He was not easily flustered but said this really freaked him out.

I was in the Loma Prieta earthquake. I remember watching the concrete slab ripple so high that as a child sitting on the ground i couldnt see my parents sitting at the table 20 feet away. Im not sure how that happened but it did

Cotton said:

In reply to crankwalk :

We live in surprisingly similar houses.  I’m also in a log home with green roof and trim and a very high ceiling in the living room.

It’s a winning combo for sure