Since the scale for measuring earthquakes is a lot like that used for hurricanes, in that like sound measures, it is logrhymic. (Not sure if that is the right word or not) but anyway the Good Friday earthquake of 1964 was 630 times more powerful than the recent one in Homer at 6.7 to 7.1 on the Scale. The good Friday quake was rated at 9.2.
People that I know that live in the Anchorage Bowl area or the Kenai, don't appear to be any better prepared than they were in 1964. Here in this part of Florida, Stuart, we and all of our neighbors have done extensive hurricane preparation, from stock piling food, water and most as of us have standby generators and stored fuel to run the house for a week or ten days. But not so with friends and acquaintances that we have south central Alaska. I guess it is the old adage of what I can't see won't hurt me.
Back when we owned a river front lot on the Kenai River and had set up our 5th wheel semi permanently as a fish camp, one of the volcanoes decided to have a major eruption across Cook Inlet. We drove down a week or so after from Nenana where we lived, to check on the trailer. We found the volcanic ash was about 4 inches deep on the lot and trailer, roads were covered in a fine grey ash. This ash was highly abrasive and since the Kenai electric grid is powered by natural gas turbines, they had shut down the power grid to keep the turbines from sucking in the abrasive ash.
People in the area weren't set up to provide their own power and neither were the businesses such as super markets etc so they all closed .
When people live in a hurricane area, they seem to understand that at times, they will get hit and prepare for it. But many people that live in earthquake and/or volcanic zones don't seem to expect there will ever be another disaster for some reason. I was as bad as anyone else the 25+ years we lived in Alaska. The Nenana Valley was formed by an earthquake many long years ago, running from almost Healy to the north side of the Tanana River (Tan a naw) at Nenana (Née nan ah) rhymes with banana. LOL the only preparations we had was our normal pantry filled with groceries and the generator in our motorhome plus our wood stoves which heated our home. That and about 20 cords of split and stacked firewood out back by my shop. LOL
joe b.
Stuart Florida
Formerly of Colorado and Alaska
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