Earthquake!

[Blue_In_AK]

Just got a good little shaker here in Anchorage. Enough to make me kind of dizzy and set the hanging lamps rocking. We're fine.

[scarletwoman]

1. Any idea where it was centered? Or is it too soon to know?

And is it okay to say, "Rock on!"?

[Blue_In_AK]

3. Over by Redoubt - 6.2

My brother in Homer was kind of freaked out.

[scarletwoman]

5. Redoubt - possible eruption in the future?

Wishing you all safe and well. With hopefully not too much added excitement...

[Blue_In_AK]

8. Possible.

The last time it erupted in 2009, we got stuck out in Nome for an extra day after the Iditarod because no planes were flying into Anchorage.


We're told this earthquake was even felt in Fairbanks. Shannyn Moore says it sounded like a freight train where she lives in Homer and blew her windows open.

[scarletwoman]

18. I had just moved to Alaska when Mt. Redoubt erupted in December 1989, and then erupted

again in April (I think). Real heavy snow that winter up in Willow, with layers of ash built in.

When Spurr erupted in 1992, the ash fall was really thick up where we were, coated everything 1/4 inch thick or more in black - as you know, it's not really like ashes, more like tiny grains of glass. You can't just brush it off the car windshield, it leaves scratches. Our garden seemed to like it, though. It was a good growing year.

If I'm remembering correctly after all this time, there were 4 volcanic eruptions during the 6 years I lived in Willow: Redoubt twice(?), Spurr, and I'm thinking Iliamna went off once, too.

Good times...

[Marrah_G]

2. Keeps life exciting, eh? :)

[Blue_In_AK]

4. Yeah,

they usually don't bother me much, but I was kind of hanging onto the refrigerator for a minute. It kind of livens up dinner preparation.

[Sedona]

6. M6.2 69 km south Redoubt Volcano

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us2000314u#general_summary

[G_j]

15. thanks

interesting

[suffragette]

7. Glad everyone's ok!

[2naSalit]

9. Lots of activity

in the past few days... 6.9 some 73km SW of Nilkolski Island about 36 hours ago and 7.0 230km W of Abepura, Indosnesia within a couple hours of that and too many 5+ zingers all over the place in the last 72 hours.

Augustine and Redoubt have been belching up quite a bit of steam the past couple weeks.

Sometimes you can see the steam roiling with more intensity from the volcanoes if you check out this site:

http://www.avo.alaska.edu/webcam/Redoubt_-_DFR.php

And look at all the webcams. Some are often not functioning but most are are, even when the clouds obscure the view. Some volcanoes have more than one cam dedicated. It's on my list of daily weather recap I do just to see what's going on with the planet along with the earthquakes, solar flares and tropospheric conditions.

[Blue_In_AK]

11. Since I've been in Alaska,

Augustine, Redoubt and Spurr have all erupted at least once. The most dramatic for Anchorage was Mt. Spurr in 1992. It was a nice sunny day, and then suddenly there was a huge black cloud coming out of the west, looking almost like a thunderhead. It was really impressive and created quite a mess here. Redoubt was disruptive to air travel and so on, but being further out, it didn't create the ash mess.

We remember the Southcentral volcanoes as AIRS - Augustine furthest out, then Iliamna, Redoubt and Spurr, being closest to Anchorage.


Here's an old shot of Redoubt, pre-2009.

[2naSalit]

20. Wow... and cool!

Never been to Alaska, it's on my bucket list though.

Nice photo, thanks!

[spanone]

10. ready to rumble....be safe

[Solly Mack]

12. Sharknado!

I'm glad you're OK! Sounds scary!

[Divernan]

13. Activity in the Aleutians as well-volcanic eruption & earthquake

One of my adult kids is in Unalaska/Aleutian Islands/"Ring of Fire". Within his first week there, the Aleutians had a volcanic eruption (Cleveland Volcano) and a 6.9 earthquake.

I've spent 10 days in and around Juneau (rafting the Mendenhall/kayaking the Lynn Canal/etc.) which was one breath-taking moment after another, but by God, the Aleutians, in the brief Arctic summer, & judging by his photos, is even more magnificent/glorious/words fail me.

July 27/2015 - earthquake: The epicenter of the tremor on Monday was 76 km southeast of Yunaska Island, the largest island in a group in the chain of volcanic Aleutian Islands that stretch across the northern Pacific from the US to Russia, the report said.
The quake struck at a depth estimated to be 11.9 km. No tsunami alert was issued following the quake.
The Aleutian Islands run along the trench of the same name and comprise the northern part of the so-called Pacific Rim of Fire, an area of frequent seismic activity.
http://www.rt.com/news/310812-powerful-quake-alaska-coast/

Tuesday, July 21 2015 - volcano

Explosion Shakes Aleutians' Cleveland Volcano


July 21st Eruption:An explosion shook Cleveland Volcano in the east-central Aleutian Islands - volcanic er at 8:17 local time Tuesday morning. It’s the volcano’s first explosion since November. Kristi Wallace with the Alaska Volcano Observatory in Anchorage called it “a small, discrete, short-duration event.”

Cleveland Volcano is on uninhabited Chuginadak Island, about 45 miles west of the village of Nikolski, 150 miles southwest of Unalaska and 940 miles southwest of Anchorage. The volcanic cone towers 5,676 feet above the Bering Sea.

http://kucb.org/news/article/explosion-shakes-aleutians-cleveland-volcano/

Cue Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire.

[Blue_In_AK]

17. It seems like Cleveland Volcano is going off every other day.

It's very active.

I've not been to the Aleutians, although we've talked about going out to Dutch Harbor sometime for the experience. The problem is it costs almost $1,000 to fly out there from Anchorage, or if you wanted to take a ferry ride from Homer, it takes almost four days, one way. Distances here are immense. I have been to Kodiak though, which was breathtaking.

[LatrishaWatsky]

14. May peace

May peace for you.

[Blue_In_AK]

16. Thank you, and welcome to DU.

[panader0]

21. Welcome to DU

I like getting in on the first post.

[Blue_In_AK]

19. Revised up to 6.46.

[malaise]

22. Glad you're fine