THE 7.0 magnitude quake that jolted southern Alaska yesterday morning, buckling roads,
has been followed by dozens of aftershocks that have continued to rattle nerves.
Despite the powerful earthquake disrupting rush-hour traffic and jamming telephone service in and around Anchorage, the state’s largest city, there were no reports of serious injuries.
President Donald Trump has urged the “great people of Alaska” to “please follow the directions of the highly trained professionals who are there to help you.
“Your Federal Government will spare no expense. God Bless you ALL!”
A tsunami warning that was issued for Cook Inlet, linking Anchorage with the Gulf of Alaska, has been cancelled.
The quake struck Alaska about eight miles (13 km) north of Anchorage, a city of 300,000 residents which account for about 40 per cent of the country’s population.
Public schools and many businesses across Anchorage closed early, and an eerie quiet settled over the city’s largely deserted streets by nightfall.
At least two local television stations were briefly knocked off the air by the tremor, which some people said sounded like a roar of gunfire.
Roads and bridges were the hardest hit, but Anchorage was otherwise mostly spared from major structural damage, authorities said.
But power outages and disruption of phone service were widespread.
City Fire Chief Jodie Hettrick told Reuters that two small, older buildings had collapsed, and that her department had responded to several structure fires.
Emergency medical personnel answered 56 calls in the hours immediately after the quake, although none involved serious injuries, Hettrick confirmed.
Panicked workers ran from offices and sought shelter under office desks, the Associated Press said.
One Associated Press reporter working in downtown Anchorage saw cracks in a two-storey building after the quake.
Sporting events have been called off for the weekend, and Anchorage public schools were to remain closed until Wednesday to allow for safety inspections.
People went back inside buildings after the earthquake but a smaller aftershock a short time later sent them running back into the streets again.
Shortly after the quake, a tsunami warning was issued for the southern Alaska coastal areas of Cook’s Inlet and part of the Kenai peninsula.
The warning means tsunami waves were expected.
Anchorage lawyer Justin Capp says he was getting ready for work when he felt the shaking start.
He grabbed on to the door frame in the hallway and the door slammed into his hands, scraping his fingers and hand.
Capp says he’s lived in Anchorage eight years and that the quake was the worst he had experienced.
Another lawyer, Hank Graper, was driving when the quake struck. He first thought his vehicle had a flat tire, then thought it was exploding.
He said he realised it was an earthquake after he saw traffic poles swaying.
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Graper called it the most “violent” earthquake he’s experience in his 20 years in Anchorage.
Alaska averages 40,000 earthquakes per year, with more large quakes than the other 49 states combined.
Southern Alaska has a high risk of earthquakes due to tectonic plates sliding past each other under the region.
According to the US Geological Survey, the Pacific plate is sliding northwestward and plunges beneath the North American plate in southern Alaska, the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands.
On March 27, 1964, Alaska was hit by a magnitude 9.2 earthquake, the strongest recorded in US history, about 75 miles east of Anchorage.
The quake, which lasted about 4 minutes, and the tsunami it triggered claimed about 130 lives.
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