Alaska Quake 2018

They had a pretty good shaker up there in Alaska. Up there it's one plate diving under another plate. Back when I was in college I had a great Geology teacher. He looked like he belonged with rock and out in the western deserts mining away. He sure had some great stories. Our field trips were pretty good also. Pete was more a friend thenjust a teacher. The stories he'd tell were great and you just wanted to stop doing everything and listen to him. He could talk real good and that's why he was such a great teacher.

The one story I was thinking about was from the 1964 earthquake in Alaska. He was talking about being on a ship with the tital wave. The boat was like surfing on the tital wave. He looked over the railing and could see tree below the boat. The ship was traveling over a forest inland. The ship really didn't have much say in where it was going. The tital wave was giving them a ride and it's not going to stop until it ran out of energy.When the ship came to rest it was a couple miles inland in the forest. I guess it did this to train cars also.

That quake was 9.2 Mag. and this one the other day was 7.0 Mag. that's a couple numbers less then the 9.2 right, wrong. Going from 7.0 to 8.0 is 32 times greater and going from 8.0 to 9.0 is 32 times greater then 8.0.  I remember this plot graph we had in one book. It showed the sizes of the quakes as circles and each one was 32 time greater then the next one.

Pete said that one family whose house was shaking and on the land that slide a long ways. The people sat down on the couch because the shaking was going on for so lone they got tired of being scared and sat down and road out the shaking. This families house traveled about a 1/4 mile down him while others may have traveled as far as a mile down hill. That's amazing getting borredand sitting down and riding out the shaking.

I remembered the photos I looked at of down town. There was 30 feet of displacement where a store sank 30 feet and the road was 30 feet above the store front. Going through something like that has to be real memerable. No other quake could ever beat the 1964 quake. I never looked for video of that quake. I should do that. I guess it would be film and not video. Video cameras back then were large boxes with lenses stuck on the turut. They had large stands to hold them up and move smoothly across the floor of the studio. So 8mm or super 8 would have been the type film that people would have.

Time to feed my kitties. I so love my little kitties. It's amazing how they have grown on me. Now they are the most special little guys ever. I really love my kitties.