8.2 Quake Hits Alaska

[Mystic Wanderer]

The largest earthquake in 50 years hit Alaska this past Wednesday with a jolting 8.2 on the Richter scale!
There was little damage, which is unbelievable for such a large quake. 
I guess Poseidon was just giving us juvenile humans a warning to straighten our act up. 

Some 380 miles to the west, off the coast of the Alaskan Peninsula, a magnitude 8.2 earthquake had just ripped through this part of the planet—the biggest temblor the U.S. has seen in more than 50 years. The event, which struck just after 10 p.m. local time on July 28, jolted nearby shores and sent landslides rushing down the steep coastal mountains. 


Luckily, the quake caused little damage. It struck far from dense population centers and only caused rough seas. But such a large event would be devastating elsewhere. A magnitude 8.2 earthquake is nearly as large as the biggest earthquake thought possible along the San Andreas fault. 

I find it strange that a tsunami warning test had just been implemented a couple of hours earlier.  There always seems to be a test or training exercise shortly prior to major events like this. 
Why?  

A slowly oscillating wail cut through the sunlit summer night outside Kasey Aderhold's house in Homer, Alaska. The same siren had sounded just hours before as a test of the tsunami warning system—but this time the danger was real.

The tsunami warning has been lifted now. 

Read more on this story here: Source

[Kenzo]

The largest earthquake in 50 years hit Alaska this past Wednesday with a jolting 8.2 on the Richter scale!
There was little damage, which is unbelievable for such a large quake. 
I guess Poseidon was just giving us juvenile humans a warning to straighten our act up. 

Some 380 miles to the west, off the coast of the Alaskan Peninsula, a magnitude 8.2 earthquake had just ripped through this part of the planet—the biggest temblor the U.S. has seen in more than 50 years. The event, which struck just after 10 p.m. local time on July 28, jolted nearby shores and sent landslides rushing down the steep coastal mountains. 


Luckily, the quake caused little damage. It struck far from dense population centers and only caused rough seas. But such a large event would be devastating elsewhere. A magnitude 8.2 earthquake is nearly as large as the biggest earthquake thought possible along the San Andreas fault. 

I find it strange that a tsunami warning test had just been implemented a couple of hours earlier.  There always seems to be a test or training exercise shortly prior to major events like this. 
Why?  

A slowly oscillating wail cut through the sunlit summer night outside Kasey Aderhold's house in Homer, Alaska. The same siren had sounded just hours before as a test of the tsunami warning system—but this time the danger was real.

The tsunami warning has been lifted now. 

Read more on this story here: Source

Strange that no tsunami , it was very big one  . Look`s like energy release equivalent about 56000000000 kilograms of explosive, same as World`s largest nuclear test in USSR .

[ABNARTY]

That is a powerful earthquake. Good thing it was out to sea and at depth. Could have been worse.