Video of earthquake hitting Anchorage Courthouse

[brooklynite]

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[TreasonousBastard]

1. Yikes! Both of them must have been terrified of the building collapsing...

Good thing it didn't, and the earthquake story for the grandkids doesn't make it any better.

[lpbk2713]

2. I'm sure the Anchorage Courthouse went through a serious earthquake.

And I certainly hope everyone involved is alright.

But ... um ... was someone having sex in that video?

[Yonnie3]

5. Did the earth move for you too? n/t

[WhiskeyGrinder]

36. Sexualizing a woman's fear, uncertainty and physical exertion is a shitty thing to do.

[MineralMan]

3. That's a long one.

[lpbk2713]

4. Not even going there.

...

[MineralMan]

6. Darn!

I know the line you were about to say, though.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. Earthquakes are just freaky.

While I'm no stranger to natural disasters (I live in a hurricane zone), hurricanes give you advance warnings and you can literally see them coming.

Earthquakes, on the other hand, are like evil demon spirits. Invisible and appearing out of nowhere.

[Sanity Claws]

8. That lasted a long time

I went through the last big in Seattle (2001) and don't think it lasted that long.
I remember the building being evacuated immediately afterwards. Of course, we all had to take the stairs because it was not safe to use the elevators.
All elevators had to inspected before they could be used again. Priority was given to the high risers in downtown. I had to climb 10 floors in a smaller building for a meeting several days after the earthquake.

Good luck to Alaskans!

[MFM008]

9. It did

That was the January 28. 2001 quake 10: 45 am.
6.8 ...it woke me up bigly...
Everything in my apartment was knocked over.
Scary.
Centered near Olympia not far from me.
It seemed just like that.

[lunatica]

10. That was a very long earthquake

[suffragette]

11. And when you're experiencing one, the time seems to stretch out even longer.

The first few seconds of that video, I was thinking, please just get under that table. Glad when she finally did.

[Pacifist Patriot]

12. Me too. I was watching at work and my colleague across the hall looked up and said "what?"

Apparently I said, "Lady, get under the table!" out loud.

I've been in a couple of fairly strong earthquakes, but neither were quite that strong or lasted for that long. Wow!

[cynatnite]

13. We were in the '89 quake in California...

It was only a 4.5 or something like that.

This one was frightening because of the length of it and it looked strong, too.

[Laffy Kat]

22. I've only been through one way back when while I was still in Memphis.

Can't remember Richter rating although it was a small/short one. I was sitting on the floor when it happened and I remember having the feeling of being totally helpless. You have no control and don't know what's coming next. Scary.

[suffragette]

16. I've been through a few, from here in WA to ones in CA when I lived there. Some stronger, some

not as strong. The ones with the sharp, jerking movement get to me more than the rolling ones, even when they aren’t as strong a magnitude.

Glad they drilled about getting under a desk/table or under a doorway/supporting arch in school. It’s so automatic for me that one time when an earthquake woke me up, I rolled out of bed and was in the doorway before I was fully awake.

[Pacifist Patriot]

19. I woke up during a rolling one dreaming I was on a cruise ship.

It was my first time ever in California. I woke up enough to think, "wait, what? Oh right, this must be an earthquake. What am I supposed to do again?" By the time I remembered the concept of a doorway, it was over.

[suffragette]

21. Your dream was on point. The rolling ones do feel like the swell of waves. The sharp ones though,

it’s like being jerked around by something invisible.

[wryter2000]

33. That's how it usually goes

By the time you think "Should I get under a table?" It's over.

[Laffy Kat]

23. The one I experienced in Memphis was a rolling one.

I could literally feel it rolling through my apartment which was on the ground floor.

[suffragette]

26. It's scary when that solid sense of earth under your feet shifts so suddenly.

[Laffy Kat]

27. Yes, first and only time I've felt such a thing. nt

[lunatica]

17. Most people's first instinct is to run outside

I use to live in California in the Bay Area and experienced the Loma Prieta earthquake that flattened a mile of a freeway onto the bottom freeway. It broke part of the Bay Bridge and caused the devastating San Francisco fires. It was a mess! It took a very long time to fix the damage. Traffic is always bad but it got far worse in the months that followed.

Everyone had the jitters for weeks afterwards. Even a truck rumbling by would make people jump.

[suffragette]

20. Yeah. I remember when a good-sized one hit here in Seattle a few years ago and the people from

here ducked under desks, tables and an archway as we’d been taught in school here while the people who had moved here from the midwest and east coast went running out the door while yelling for everyone else to do the same.

Yikes, the Loma Prieta one was a bad one. Glad you came through it ok. I used to think about that pancaked freeway whenever I looked at our Viaduct in Seattle since it’s a similar construction. Big part of the reason they’re tearing it down here now since sooner or later it would probably have done the same.

[cynatnite]

25. We were in that quake...

We were stationed at Ft. Ord at the time. Shook the hell out of everything. I had just gotten home. While talking to the husband, it hit. He grabbed my hand and we ran outside. We were living in a mobile home at the time. When I got back to work, the building had huge cracks in the walls, but the engineers declared it safe. We worked on the top floor.

No electricity for three or four days if I remember right.

Nine months later our daughter was born. We call her the earthquake baby. LOL

[lunatica]

28. LOL!

I remember the local news tv coverage was on all the time. They became an incredible conduit for post earthquake follow up. The telephones were out and it was before cell phones or computers so they took on the role of receiving and disseminating local information. Companies all over the Bay Area canceled work by telling the news stations who in turn announced it. They asked people for help for specific locations, or told people not to go to certain locations. They helped with traffic too, telling us which streets were closed and what routes to take.

I watched them for days and was very impressed with what they did.

The Bay Area truly comes together during such devastations. Even my son who had a day off from our local Safeway took off right away to go help them. So many people just jump in wanting to help. You can imagine the mess it was in a supermarket!

[The Genealogist]

14. Scary just watching it

I've only experienced effects from one quake that was centered in Oklahoma. The windows in my house vibrated and caused a buzzing sound. That was enough for me.

[Tanuki]

15. I wonder if Wasilla City Hall was affected?

[diane in sf]

18. That's a real long quake. And to survive, you want to be next to the big piece of furniture,

not under it. Table and desk legs can collapse, but the skirting or drawer part under them won’t. (See triangles of life). If you’re in a mid or high rise building on rollers, they can keep moving for quite a while after the original quake has ended.

[MissB]

24. Yep.

I used to live in Anchorage and was so used to earthquakes that I’d be in the doorway before I was even awake during small quakes.

It’s a hard habit to break.

[ecstatic]

29. Wow, that lasted a long time.

I can't imagine experiencing an earthquake like that.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

30. In the 1964 Good Friday Quake

the shaking lasted five minutes. 9.2 magnitude. I can't begin to imagine what that would have been like.

The very best earthquake book I've ever read is On Shaky Ground by John Nance. It devotes some six chapters to that earthquake and makes fascinating reading. The book came out in 1989, and even though more earthquakes have occurred since then, the basics of plate tectonics were well established by the time Nance wrote the book.

The only earthquake I've ever been in was an aftershock of the Northridge quake in 1994, and I slept through it. Not sure whether I should be proud or ashamed of that.

[Charlotte Little]

31. Oh man

I was in CA for the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, so I know the feeling all too well. It's very disconcerting to have the ground beneath you shake you like a rag doll.

[wryter2000]

32. Holy crap

I've been through several quakes, including Loma Prieta, but I've never seen one that went on for so long. Looks like the building took it well.

[rurallib]

34. I wonder who was taking the video

They seemed to be moving around and therefore not confined under a desk or something. Maybe they were in a doorway?

I thank them (and you ) for the video, but it is not worth dying for.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

35. Magnitude 7.0. Here's the news from Earthquake Alaska...

Anchorage M7.0: What we know so far
November 30, 2018
Ian Dickson

Link: https://earthquake.alaska.edu/anchorage-m70-what-we-know-so-far

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A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck just seven miles north of Anchorage at 8:29am on Friday morning, at a depth of about 27 miles. The earthquake caused power outages, damage to roads and buildings, and closures of schools, businesses and government offices. The extent of the damage is not yet clear, and we are still waiting for word on whether there were any casualties.
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This is the largest earthquake to strike near Anchorage since the 2016 M7.1 Iniskin earthquake. Because this morning's quake was so much closer, the impacts to Anchorage and Mat-Su are far more severe and widespread. The picture is still coming together, but damage reports so far include the following:

Seward Highway closed at mile post 112 due to a landslide
Water mains ruptured and nonstructural damage to terminals at the Anchorage airport.
Significant road damage including the International Road on-ramp
A roof or ceiling collapse at a Key Bank in South Anchorage
Damage and flooding at the Alaska Railroad headquarters

and, from the Anchorage Daily News with photos and damage reports....see https://www.adn.com/

Large earthquake, aftershocks, strike Southcentral Alaska, damage reported around region

Link: https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2018/11/30/large-earthquake-strikes-southcentral-alaska/

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The epicenter was just north of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, according to the Alaska Earthquake Center. It violently shook the most populous region of the state at about 8:30 a.m., just as people were settling in to work and school.

There were no immediate reports of major injuries but it appeared parts of the region had suffered serious structural damage.

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