Obviously we have experienced a number of them since moving to Alaska in January of 2017.
This is more than the other 49 states combined. I recently read that Alaska experiences more than 40 thousand earthquakes each year. It is by far the largest earthquake I have ever experienced in my life. Its epicenter was around 10 miles from our house. However, at 8:29am Alaska Standard Time, on November 30th, 2018 a 7.0 earthquake hit Alaska.
I generally wake up early and I am lucky as Jasper is a late sleeper, usually not waking up until 9am. I’ve got to say that this was one of the scariest moments of my life. 13 of these people didn’t even die in the state of Alaska, but from one of the resulting tsunamis that reached California! Thankfully the earthquake that Alaska experienced on November 30th, 2018 was not as strong as the earthquake experienced in 1964.Ī week ago today, the area around Anchorage and the Mat-Su Valley experienced a 7.0 earthquake. Most of these deaths can be attributed to the tsunamis. The 64′ earthquake reworked the landscape of Alaska and, along with the two following tsunamis, took the lives of 139 people. It is believed that Alaska has had 9 mega-thrust earthquakes over the last 5,500 years with an average time span of 630 years between each earthquake. In addition it is considered a mega-thrust earthquake. This is the second largest earthquake ever to be recorded worldwide. It is known as the Good Friday Earthquake or the Great Alaska Earthquake. The largest earthquake to ever hit North America happened in Alaska in 1964 at a magnitude of 9.2. It is beautiful, and yet very dangerous in many ways.
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