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I was going to report this earthquake yesterday, but things came
up and I do apologize, but I am doing it.
Early this morning at about 3:53 Pacific Standard
Time, there was a magnitude 5.4 earthquake there
along the Aleutian Islands near King Cove, Alaska.
And it's what's called a thrust earthquake.
You can see the moment tensor ball that USGS have.
There was no tsunami warning.
A thrust earthquake is where one side of
the fault zone rises up over the other
and the other side stays stationary.
First, earthquakes are the worst
type that you can have.
Here's an image of the earthquake wave.
The seismic wave.
Interestingly, there was no foreshock
and no aftershock since then.
This was a seduction earthquake, an area they consider
the allusion seduction zone, an area where the Pacific
plate Ducks under the North American plate.
Here's the location of that earthquake, and I'll
bring it out for you a little bit.
I believe Pavlov Volcano is about 70
miles to the north of this earthquake.
Here you can see also King Cove.
Three people said they felt this earthquake,
two from King Cove, intensity level three.
And then we got another one
over here, one from Acattan.
So the earthquake shaking would have
lasted about one to 2 seconds.
If people were indoors, they may
have felt it outdoors, probably not.
If it had happened at night,
it would have woken them up.
But it wasn't at night.
Dishes, windows, doors, disturb bridling walls,
making creaking sounds or sensation like
a heavy truck striking a building.
Now, intensity level three felt quite noticeably
indoors, especially on upper floors of buildings.
But many people do not recognize it as an earthquake.
Standing automobiles may rock slightly
vibration like a passing truck.
I wonder how many dogs reacted to the earthquake.
So if any of you there that live in King Cove
did feel this earthquake, please put those comments down below.
Yeah, I think it's interesting.
There's been no aftershocks, which normally
there would have been by now.
And there was no four shocks either.
They haven't had an earthquake there
in that location since December 28.
Originally, USGS had this listed as a 5.1,
and then they upgraded it to a 5.4,
probably because of the shake reports.
So please put those comments down below.
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