history, centered about 75 miles (120 kilometers) east of Anchorage. On March 27, 1964, Alaska was hit by a magnitude 9.2 earthquake, the strongest recorded in U.S. Geological Survey, the Pacific plate is sliding northwestward and plunges beneath the North American plate in southern Alaska, the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands. Southern Alaska has a high risk of earthquakes due to tectonic plates sliding past each other under the region. Photographs posted to social media sites showed damage that included collapsed ceiling tiles at an Anchorage high school and buckled roadway pavement in places.Ĭereal boxes and packages of batteries littered the floor of a grocery store after the earthquake Tuesday morning that rocked buildings in Alaska's largest city, and picture frames and mirrors were knocked from living room walls.Īlaska averages 40,000 earthquakes per year, with more large quakes than the other 49 states combined. Geological Survey said it was a 7.0-magnitude quake and tsunami warnings were issued for southern Alaska coastal areas. Kodiak is an island about 200 miles (321 kilometers) south of Anchorage. Police in Alaska's Kodiak island community have told residents to head to higher ground amid the tsunami threat from the earthquake that rocked buildings in Anchorage, caused damage to roads and sent office workers running out to the streets. This version corrects that the earthquake happened Friday, not Tuesday.
His children, 11 and 16, were evacuated from school.
He grabbed the Betta fish and put it in another bowl. Slaton ran into his son's room after the shaking stopped and found his fish tank shattered and the fish on the closet floor, gasping for breath. Everything that's not tied down is broke." There's no pictures left on the walls, there's no power, there's no fish tank left. His 120-pound (54-kilogram mastiff panicked and tried to run down the stairs, but the house was swaying back and forth so much that she was thrown off her feet and into a wall and tumbled to the base of the stairs. Slaton says the quake created a powerful back-and-forth sloshing in the bathtub and before he knew it, he'd been thrown out of the tub by the force of the waves. Slaton just moved to Kenai, Alaska with his wife from Arizona and had never felt an earthquake before the 7.0 magnitude temblor hit on Friday morning.
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