‘Major’ damage Major Damage to Anchorage area after magnitude-7 earthquake in Alaska

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A severe earthquake,rated 7.0 on the moment magnitude scale ripped across the Anchorage area Friday at 8:29 a.m., local time. Buildings roiled, roads cracked and thousands lost power during the morning commute. Dramatic scenes like the one Reikena witnessed on Minnesota Drive played out across the highest populated city in Alaska.

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So far (about an hour ago) no deaths were reported.

Yes prayer.

 

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"Strange seismic waves that rippled around world leave scientists bewildered
'I don't think I've seen anything like it,' seismologist says'
...
They're too nice. They're too perfect to be nature,” joked the University of Glasgow’s Helen Robinson, who is study for a PhD in applied volcanology"

Just before 9.30am on Sunday 11 November, a series of unusual seismic pulses rippled around the world almost undetected.
The waves rang for over 20 minutes, emanating about 15 miles off the shores of Mayotte - a tiny island in the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and Africa.

From here, they reverberated across Africa, setting off geological sensors in Zambia, Kenya, and Ethiopia.
They crossed the Atlantic, and were picked up in Chile, New Zealand, Canada, and even Hawaii nearly 11,000 miles away, the National Geographic reports.

Despite their huge range, the waves were apparently not felt by anybody. However, one person monitoring the US Geological Survey’s live stream of seismogram displays did notice the unusual waveform and posted it to Twitter, sparking the interest of other geologists and earthquake enthusiasts.

Twitter user @matarikipax posted the waveforms, describing it in the first instance as “a most odd and unusual seismic signal”.

Strange seismic waves that rippled around world leave scientists bewildered

 

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Nobody's looted a Walmart yet?