Alaska earthquakes - July 2015
A magnitude 6.46 earthquake tonight at 6:35 p.m. Alaska time, felt around Anchorage. Facebook is lit up about the length and severity of the shaking. There were 7 aftershocks within an hour. Some f...
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sue.t wrote:
I lived in Beaver Creek, Yukon when the BIG one - magnitude 9.5 - hit Valdez on March 28, 1964. Seven months after the earthquake we visited Valdez and Anchorage. The amount of damage was amazing. The whole town of Valdez was moved because of it.
We also had some effects in our yard at Beaver Creek from that quake. My parents wouldn't let me play in the yard until the crack in the ground was repaired. But our home was okay and nothing else was damaged.
Four things stick in my mind about the '64 quake (I was much younger at the time, obviously) as I was growing up in Los Anchorage:
1) Family lived in a log cabin at the time with logs (in lieu of planking) for the first 3 feet or so of the roof; we lost 2 logs off that portion;
2) Some months after, I was with my uncle in Kodiak and asked him why that big boat was sitting so high on the ground on the hillside.....
3) "Town" of Portage sunk;
4) Koslosky's store and my dad's rental house both were broken in half and fell about 15 feet.
