We just had the biggest earthquake of the summer – a 4.7 at 12:57pm our time – about 38 miles from Homer. Following is the map (hint: look for the big red box.)
We have lots of little earthquakes nearby all the time – this time it was big enough to notice. At first I thought Amy had snuck up on me and was shaking the back of my chair to get my attention. I said something like “hey babe” but the shaking continued. I turned around and Amy wasn’t there. I then noticed that my computer monitors were bouncing around at which point “EARTHQUAKE!” entered my brain. I rolled with the last five seconds (it was about 10 seconds long) and then went up stairs to announce the event. Amy thought I was slamming doors down stairs, so she didn’t make the connection until I told her.
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wow, what an experience!
those arial maps of alaska are breath-taking.
Homer must be the definition of surreal.
While I live a bit East of your place in the Boulder, Colorado foothills, I happened to be up in Alaska this last week and was at my sister's in Palmer, Alaska (few hundred miles North of 'ya) when this occurred ... and yea, it was a bit surreal, although we correctly diagnosed an Earthquake pretty quickly and noticed it up on the USGS site not very long afterwards - I imagine you got a bit more of a shake as you were fairly close to the epicenter.
On a perhaps related note, we had just finished up a fun little fishing charter in Seward Alaska - I've never been to Homer, but my guess is that it has some similarities to Seward - nice place ... and as can be seen in the pictures, some GREAT fishing! ;-)
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