Anchorage, Alaska Quake - 30.11.18

[StevieTNZ]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/ameri...uildings-in-anchorage-tsunami-warnings-issued

Pretty scary! The damage seems extensive.

The governor of Alaska has issued a disaster declaration after back-to-back earthquakes measuring 7.0 and 5.8 rocked buildings and buckled roads Friday morning in Anchorage in Alaska.
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Photographs posted to social media sites showed damage that included collapsed ceiling tiles at an Anchorage high school and buckled roads. One image showed a car stranded on an island of pavement, surrounded by cavernous cracks where the earthquake split the road.

The quake also disrupted electrical service and knocked out traffic lights in Anchorage, snarling traffic.

 

[davenn]

Anchorage, Alaska has been hit by a large and close quake.
M 7.0 - 13km N of Anchorage, Alaska

Dave

 

[StevieTNZ]

https://twitter.com/HeatherHintze/status/1068577253905203200
Video recording of the quake as it hit. It went on and on and on...

Too frightening. I cannot imagine how it was down in Christchurch back in 2011.

 

[Wrichik Basu]

https://twitter.com/HeatherHintze/status/1068577253905203200
Video recording of the quake as it hit. It went on and on and on...

The pictures towards the left were shaking quite a lot. I would have had a heart attack in that condition!

 

[nsaspook]

Amazing pictures.

 

[davenn]

Amazing pictures.
View attachment 234964

WOW, that's some serious subsidence !

 

[LURCH]

Thumbs up to Alaska’s strict building codes. Last I heard, no fatalities, no serious injuries, no major structural collapses of buildings. Now, if they would just get their act together and build roads that hold up intact when the ground drops out from under them!

 

[Tom.G]

Now, if they would just get their act together and build roads that hold up intact when the ground drops out from under them!

Be sure to let them know when you invent anti-gravity.

 

[LURCH]

I plan to use cartoon physics; everything should be OK so long as none of the drivers look down.