A few days ago, the forces beneath Alaska rattled people within a 500-mile radius: A magnitude 7 earthquake ripped under Hubbard Glacier.
A few days ago, the forces beneath Alaska rattled people within a 500-mile radius: A magnitude 7 earthquake ripped under Hubbard Glacier.
The earthquake’s main shock and aftershocks have revealed something else — a possible slash across the face of Alaska long buried by glacial ice, a feature that professionals speculated upon decades ago.
Before getting to that, here’s a review from State Seismologist Michael West on the significance of an earthquake this big:
“We get so numb to magnitude scale in this state,” he said at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where he works for the Geophysical Institute. “A magnitude 7 is one hell of an earthquake. Put that in Afghanistan, it would kill 10,000 people.”
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