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Joshua Lott
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From: Fairbanks, AK, USA
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 11-03-2002 05:37 PM

There was just an earthquake about 75 miles south of where I live...

The initial magnitude was a 7.9, 6.2 miles below the surface. This is the 2nd one in just a few weeks. The last one was a 6.5, This time things were knocked off the walls. Some roads cracked. It happened about an hour and 15 minutes ago. We are still feeling some pretty strong after shocks. here is a link to the story on CNN.

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Mark Gulbrandsen
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posted 11-03-2002 07:23 PM

WOW! Thats really a long quake. And very powerful too. With all the volcanic and quake activity in the last week one has to wonder if somehow one is linked to the next and so on. In the past few years they seem to come one after the other but in different parts of the world.
Mark
I just checked CNN again and there was also one in Pakastan about 4.5 in level.
Added: And a volcano in Ecuador that has just erupted.

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Michael Schaffer
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posted 11-03-2002 07:26 PM

What state does AK stand for?

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David Stambaugh
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posted 11-03-2002 07:29 PM

Alaska

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Joshua Lott
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posted 11-03-2002 10:03 PM

here is more information.

We keep having aftershocks.

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Leo Enticknap
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posted 11-04-2002 01:54 AM

There was one in Italy, too, on Thursday. It caused a school to collapse killing 26 children and a teacher. Link to BBC Online coverage is here. More on the Alaska earthquake here.

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Joshua Lott
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posted 11-04-2002 04:55 AM

Something that I find amazing is that fact that we had a 7.9 and no one was hurt. Then in Italy one smaller then that and people die. I know that there are less people here in Alaska. But it is just amazing on how no one has been hurt up here. Just a couple of roads cracking and opening up. Some stuff falling off the walls. It was a pretty large quake. Right now it is 12 hours after the initial shock and we are still having small aftershocks. Some of them in the 4 or 5 range.

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Leo Enticknap
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posted 11-04-2002 05:15 AM

They're also raising questions in Italy about why the school building collapsed with major loss of life but the rest of the town was virtually untouched. Basically, it looks like that school was jerrybuilt.

According to the BBC story on Alaska, the last major earthquake there in 1964 killed 125 people. It would seem that planners and architects have learnt the lessons of that one, hence nothing but minor injuries this time. Let's hope that the Italians do likewise and introduce some tougher building regulations (or enforce the existing ones). In areas where earthquakes are uncommon, e.g. Italy, people don't prepare for them. So a smaller one will cause more damage.

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Frank Angel
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posted 11-04-2002 07:50 AM

Mark said: >. With all the volcanic and quake activity in the last week one has to wonder if somehow one is linked to the next and so on. In the past few years they seem to come one after the other but in different parts of the world. <

Exactly -- I was thinking the same thing, I mean, how can you not see a pattern?! I am surprised the science community hasn't been more forth-coming to explain what is going on. Other than we are all sitting on this one big fat globe with lots of cracks and a few billion gigaton hydrogen bombs constantly exploding in its center! (How's that for a scientific explanation?) In the movie EARTHQUAKE, the "big one" that took down LA was claimed to be 6.3 on the Richter scale. And from the little I know, those numbers are supposed to go up exponentially, meaning 7.9 must be one mother of a quake.

Joshua, glad to hear no extensive human casualties....we've had more than our share of those in recent times.

Frank

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Adam Fraser
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From: Houghton Lake, MI, USA
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posted 11-04-2002 08:57 AM

Frank,
You are right, the richter scale is an exponential scale. A 2 is ten times more powerful than a 1. A 3 is ten times more powerful than a 2, and so on. Wow, I did learn something in school.

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Michael Schaffer
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posted 11-04-2002 10:10 AM

A few years ago, tens of thousands of people were killed in an earthquake in Turkey. The houses had not been built according to earthquake safety regulations. Turkey is not the kind of place where regulations are taken seriously and the building companies who had made a lot of money by building cheaper, less solid houses than they were allowed were not held responsible.
A year later, an earthquake hit Athens but didn`t do much damage because in Greece, regulations are very strict. In Greece, regulations aren`t generally taken very seriously either. But in the 60s Athens had been devastated by an earthquke and they had taken that lesson very seriously.
I saw a program on TV recently which said that Tokyo is expected to see a major earthquke sometime in the next decades. Experts warn that many buildings there will not withstand it but nobody seems to care to listen to them...

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Daryl C. W. O'Shea
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posted 11-04-2002 01:57 PM

Quake Rattles Remote Area of Alaska
AP

A violent earthquake slammed a remote area of Alaska's interior, delivering a jolt so strong that it created waves on lakes and ponds around the continent. The magnitude 7.9 quake was one of the strongest ever recorded in the United States.

The quake, centered on the Denali Fault 90 miles south of Fairbanks, struck Sunday at 1:13 p.m. Alaska Standard Time (5:13 p.m. EST) - its effects strongly felt in Anchorage about 270 miles to the south. It lasted at least 30 seconds.

"It shook so bad you could not stand up on the front porch," said Jay Capps, a grocery store owner between Tok and Glennallen in the southeastern part of the state. "It sounded like the trees were breaking roots under the ground."

Only one minor injury was reported, but the quake did considerable damage to Alaska's infrastructure. The temblor opened 6-foot cracks in highways and roads, shook homes and damaged supports to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.

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