I'll never get used to this!

[Ben 0]

Local Date: Saturday February 17th, 2007

Local Time: 05:51 AM AKST

Universal Time: 02/17/2007 14:51:41.521 UTC

Magnitude: 5.17 ML

Latitude: 64.4113

Longitude: -147.4370

Depth: 9 miles (15 km)

 

This earthquake was:

41 miles (65 km) S of Fairbanks, AK

 

Brings a whole new meaning to the phase "internal alarm clock"?

 

[DaUP 0]

hell if that was in CA they would be whining for years

[maddog48 0]

I was stationed 100 miles south of the Arctic Circle back in the mid 80's and worked in a wooden control tower. We used to put a glass of water in the corner and by the end of the day that corner of the tower wouldn't be level because we had tremors there at least daily if not more than once a day. When was the big one that hit Anchorage?

 

 

Mike

[Ben 0]

Mike:

 

The big one was in '67 I believe.

If you were 100 miles south of the circle, you were around Fairbanks. Were you Army or Air Force? We have Ft. Wainwright for the Army and Eielson AFB for the Air Force.

[maddog48 0]

Air Force. Pretty much dead center of the state in a village called Galena on the banks of the Yukon River. It was mostly used for fighter scrambles back in the Cold War.

 

 

Mike

[Inconnu 0]

I spent 23 years in the Northeastern B.C. oilpatch, where we experienced a few small tremors. Someone mentioned that one day we may find out we were SUPPOSED to leave the oil in the ground.

[flyfishingtaz 0]

hey now...stop picking on California there DaUP. I used to live there, and if you lived on a natural fault line you'd be bitching too. Granted the last one was about in the early 90's if I'm not mistaken. But, if ya live in central Ca.( basically draw a line from S.F., Ca., to L.A.,Ca.) you have the san andreas fault if I'm not mistaken.

[DaUP 0]

ive never been in an earthquake before but i have been in an ice quake. the ice shifted and broke knocking everything off the walls in the shack and creating a 3' wall of ice between uss and shore

[Kodiak Commando 0]

Alaska has WAAAY more earthquakes then california but most go unoticed since we have WAAAY less people than california.

[Floyd 0]

Talk about earthquakes. I lived in Japan for a year and a half and that place sits on a bowl of Jell-O I think.

 

[beaverfsu 0]

if you lived on a natural fault line you'd be bitching too.

 

 

Is it me or doesn't anyone else find this statment odd? "If you lived...." Umm, Ok MOVE! :hyst: :hyst:

 

Sorry, Taz, just giving you a hard time.

 

[flyfishingtaz 0]

Oh I agree with ya. That's why I now live in Mo. . But, to be honest some of the greatest things to come out of Ca. came from that general area. ummm, microsoft( I think Bill Gates grew up around that area), some of the greatest vineyards in the world are located in that area, as well as a vast number of agricultural areas as well. So, even though there's alot of movement in the area, there's even better financial gain in that area as well.