Alaska, Thanksgiving
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The National Tsunami Warning Center confirmed that “a tsunami is not expected following the quake”. Alaska’s Department of Transportation said roadways, tunnels and key transport infrastructure would be inspected as a precaution, consistent with established protocols following moderate seismic events.
Thanksgiving got off to a shaky start in south-central Alaska as a 6.0-magnitude earthquake rattled the region on Thursday7.Home surveillance video provided to Storyful by Ruth Regan shows the moment the earthquake shook a truck parked in her driveway in Anchorage.
Nearly 500 earthquakes have struck Alaska over the past wee k, the Alaska Earthquake Center reported, with one of the most recent quakes rattling the Anchorage area on Thanksgiving.
Susitna is just west of Anchorage. According to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, the Alaskan quake set off a sensor in Forks, which registered a 3.4M. PNSN would later clarify there was no quake in Forks, but the sensor was alerted due to seismic waveforms.
Tsunami warnings for Oregonians will remain unaffected, for now, after an Alaska earthquake center decided to backfill federal cuts to an alert system that helps Pacific coast states, including Oregon,