7.8 Magnitude Earthquake Off the Coast of Alaska -

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

https://www.foxnews.com/us/tsunami-warning-issued-for-parts-of-alaska-after-7-4-magnitude-earthquake

7.8-magnitude quake rocks Alaska, prompts tsunami warning

A 7.8-magnitude earthquake has struck Alaska, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

abc7.com

Preliminary magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off coast of Alaska

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.8 struck off the coast of Alaska early Wednesday morning.

www.cnn.com

According to Wikipedia Magnitude 7 earthquakes are considered "Major" with 8 being "A great Earthquake"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_magnitude_scale

So this is a big one as far as I can tell.

 

[Tactical Wizard]

The '94 earthquake was a 6.8 and it moved NGS GPS stations a meter away from each other. It's pretty fucking big and 2020 takes no fucking prisoners, apparently.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

The '94 earthquake was a 6.8 and it moved NGS GPS stations a meter away from each other. It's pretty fucking big and 2020 takes no fucking prisoners, apparently.

According to the Agenda Free Stream, it was felt as far away as Anchorage.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

It's not the Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964 (a 9.2 magnitude), but that's still huge. Hope things go well for them.

I'll have to ask my grandmother where her brother lives up in Alaska. Unless he had moved away years ago, there's a chance he might've felt it.

 

[Tactical Wizard]

According to the Agenda Free Stream, it was felt as far away as Anchorage.

Yeah, I got woken up by the foreshock. It seemed like the ground was moving eight inches to a full foot with every oscillation. The Parents and I could barely stumble to the doorframe.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Yeah, I got woken up by the foreshock. It seemed like the ground was moving eight inches to a full foot with every oscillation. The Parents and I could barely stumble to the doorframe.

Stay Safe Kiwi.

 

[Tactical Wizard]

Stay Safe Kiwi.

No, that was in '94

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

No, that was in '94

oh my bad, my post was about tonight's earthquake, sorry for the confusion.

 

[A Cardboard Box]

Yeah, I got woken up by the foreshock. It seemed like the ground was moving eight inches to a full foot with every oscillation. The Parents and I could barely stumble to the doorframe.

You're not actually supposed to stand under a doorframe. That's dangerous as fuck.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Could California be next?

 

[A Cardboard Box]

Could California be next?

No. In 2020 only bad things happen.

 

[Titos]

Could California be next?

We can only hope. I want my bay in Arizona dammit.

 

[BlancoMailo]

The middle of this video does a good job of visualizing the difference in power between levels of the scale:

https://www.livescience.com/31464-earthquake-magnitude-explained.html

Edit:
The tsunami warning was lifted - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/earthquake-alaska-tsuani-warning-evacuations-kodiak/

 

[whatever I feel like]

Oh no, did it knock down all the igloos?

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Could California be next?

We could ask the same question about the Northwest (Portland, Seattle). On the other hand, we should worry if the next one is in the center of the United States right in the New Madrid fault zone.

Edit: I found this interesting video about the 1964 Alaska earthquake.

 

[Jimmy Durante's Ballsack]

Just what we need while Eastern Asia is under water: The Ring of Fire starting to act up.

Then again does it ever settle down?

 

[NyQuilninja]

White people
the mayans say 2012 is the end of the world
Mayans hay gringos it 2020
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ex...calendar-world-end-2020-conspiracy-theory/amp

 

[knobslobbin]

I didn't feel anything in Anchorage yesterday, but I got woken up with a small aftershock early this morning. It's not the end of the world, Alaska normally gets a lot of earthquakes.

 

[Tactical Wizard]

You're not actually supposed to stand under a doorframe. That's dangerous as fuck.

That wasn’t what was being taught at the time.

 

[Meat Target]

We can only hope. I want my bay in Arizona dammit.

But then Arizona's Californication will accelerate due to an influx of refugees.