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4.3 off Vancouver, December, 29, 2015 around 11:39pm.

I felt it last night. Was like a rolling sensation that lasted for a couple seconds.

Might have been the Indian food though.
 
flyguy said:
Upgraded to 7.1. Wow, not sure I want to experience much of a bigger one.
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I've lived here in whole life and this one has been the only one that has ever broken anything in the house. I would have to be in a bigger one, I knew this one was going to get bad and right as it hit I was like crap don't be the big one.

I guess it was 2 earthquakes, a 6.4 and a few seconds later the 7.1. I'm not entirely sure but I think each notch on the richter scale has like 10 times more energy than the next, so a 7 will have 10 times more energy than an 8. But I could be completely wrong about that.


After shocks


M2.7 at 2:12am, 20 miles NW of Anchor Point
M3.0 at 2:08am, 23 miles N of Augustine Volcano
M3.4 at 2:05am, 20 miles N of Augustine Volcano
M3.4 at 2:01am, 18 miles S of Iliamna Volcano
M2.9 at 1:59am, 16 miles S of Iliamna Volcano
M3.6 at 1:58am, 18 miles SE of Kokhanok
M4.0 at 1:54am, 16 miles S of Iliamna Volcano
M3.2 at 1:49am, 14 miles S of Iliamna Volcano


I forget which Carrs this is from but I don't think it's from Anchorage

http://i.imgur.com/XM9RvlE.jpg
 
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sandman441 said:
I guess it was 2 earthquakes, a 6.4 and a few seconds later the 7.1. I'm not entirely sure but I think each notch on the richter scale has like 10 times more energy than the next, so a 7 will have 10 times more energy than an 8. But I could be completely wrong about that.
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No, just one. Preliminary strength was upgraded from 6.4 to 7.1. The deep depth meant it was felt over a wider area than a shallow one.
 
Just counted on the USGS site - 46 aftershocks, highest of which was a 4.7. Slept through all of those, but at one point we woke up because he heard something fall off a counter in our apartment.
 
LadyStanley said:
No, just one. Preliminary strength was upgraded from 6.4 to 7.1. The deep depth meant it was felt over a wider area than a shallow one.
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yeah that was weird, I don't think I have seen them do that before. And one site still had it as a 6.8, another had something else and yeah they need a uniform standard for quake reporting.
 
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