From: Don Moses (no email)
Date: Mon Nov 04 2002 - 08:12:50 EST
The information I have is that it was mag. 7.5, centered about 90 miles
from Fairbanks and 45 miles from Denali Park HQ. I wouldn't be at all
surprised if the wave was caused by that earthquake.
Don
Ross Fleming wrote:
> I was aboard boat at Shilshole Bay Marina in Seattle this
>afternoon when a really big wake hit the boat. It didn't go away
>either. After a while I went topsides to locate the miscreant who was
>making such a big wake in the marina and found all the boats around me
>rocking, the docks were creaking and groaning, etc. all much worse
>than a big winter storm. I talked with folks who were on deck on a
>neighboring boat they reported that no boats were under weigh leaving
>wakes and we speculated that it had been refracted around the break
>water.
> This evening I heard that there had been a big earthquake in
>central Alaska at the same time we had the big waking here. Reports
>are that there was damage to some house barges on Lake Union where
>shore connections for utilities and sewage were broken.
>
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