Magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes central Alaska

[left-of-center2012]

Source: Houston Chronicle

KAVIK RIVER CAMP, Alaska (AP) — A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has hit central Alaska.

The U.S. Geological Survey says that at 6:58 a.m. Sunday the earthquake struck an area 41.8 miles (67 kilometers) east of Kavik River Camp and 342.9 miles (551 kilometers) northeast of Fairbanks, the state's second-biggest city.

The survey says the earthquake has a depth of about four-tenths of a mile (0.6 kilometers.)

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Magnitude-6-5-earthquake-strikes-central-Alaska-13150135.php

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[Anon-C]

1. Um that's awfully shallow for such a large quake, right?

ETA...

USGS has depth listed as 9.9km.

[cstanleytech]

3. Yes but earthquakes can occur at virtually any depth.

[Zorro]

2. That's central Alaska?

Learn something new every day.

[cstanleytech]

5. Quakes can happen anywhere they are just more common in some places than others.

Take the towns of New Madrid, Missouri or Charleston, South Carolina for example.
Now you would not think earthquakes would occur there but each of them has suffered extremely strong earthquakes within the last 200 years but they are rare events.
California and the other Pacific states though have more earthquakes due to them being near plate boundaries.

[uppityperson]

8. Seriously. It's the north slope, not central

I was in a quake in central AK once, Fairbanks. I thought I had a moose on my porch.

[Maxheader]

4. Have a cousin in Anchorage..

Apparently Alaska shakes a lot.

[Achilleaze]

6. That's because it' so close to russia

Sarah Palin can see it out her kitchen window

[keithbvadu2]

7. One quake even shifted Japan eight feet

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/12/japan.earthquake.tsunami.earth/index.html

[KY_EnviroGuy]

9. USGS now showing a magnitude 6.4.

This is quite a swarm, with at least 10 quakes near to 5.0 or greater and a total of 58 in the past 24hr.

See: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
(drag and expand to see Alaska only)

Looks similar to activity on Hawaii's Big Island during the recent volcanic event.

.................

[KY_EnviroGuy]

10. Local Coverage

Alaska News
6.4 earthquake hits northeast Alaska
Author: Alex DeMarban

Link: https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2018/08/12/6-1-earthquake-hits-northeast-alaska/

(snip)

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 rattled a remote region of Alaska's North Slope southeast of Prudhoe Bay Sunday morning. The state seismologist called it the biggest quake ever recorded in the region.

No damage had been reported as of midday Sunday, and there were no known impacts to the oil-production facilities and pipeline networks to the northwest, officials said.

It's an unusual location for an earthquake in Alaska, especially one of that size. The quake was centered in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge about 52 miles southwest of Kaktovik on the Beaufort Sea coast, 85 miles southeast of Deadhorse and Prudhoe Bay, and about 100 miles north of Arctic Village, according to the Alaska Earthquake Center.

And more info here:
Alaska Earthquake Center
Link: https://earthquake.alaska.edu/

Surely there's damage from this quake swarm, but this is a remote area and accurate reports may be delayed....

[Farmer-Rick]

11. Isn't this where Traitor Trump plans to allow oil drilling?

Didn't they hide legislation in the tax bill to allow the selling off of our natural resources to some corporate crony?

Earthquakes and oil drilling in our national wildlife refuge, whatever could go wrong?