Showing posts with label Aftershocks off Alaska January 8. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aftershocks off Alaska January 8. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

More aftershocks off southeast Alaska Tuesday

A pair of aftershocks from Saturday morning's Alaska earthquake have rumbled off the coast of Southeast Alaska on Tuesday, the latest with a report of a 4.7 magnitude seismic event taking place at 10:45 AM. (BC Time). It was originally reported as a 5.5 magnitude quake, but downgraded after further review.

It marks the latest in seismic activity since Saturday's quake, felt in Prince Rupert and leading to a tsunami warning for the North Coast, an event which we followed with interest from our blog as events moved forward that night.

A previous after shock registering at 4.0 took place earlier today at 6:43 AM BC Time

Further aftershocks are expected, some more sizeable ones are listed below.

January 8 -- 8:12 PM (BC Time) 4.7 
January 9-- 6:47 AM (BC Time) 3.9 
January 12-- 8:00 AM (BC Time) 3.5
January 14-- 8:00 AM (BC Time) 5.4

You can review past seismic activity along the Pacific coast from our archive page.

CBC-- 4.7M earthquake strikes off Alaska
Vancouver Sun-- Another earthquake off West Coast