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At 08:31 AM 11/4/02 EST, wrote:
>Yesterday at about 4:45 pm central standard time, our boat began to
lurch
>fore and aft and side to side rather violently.... I went on deck
and saw
>that all the boats in the marina were doing the same thing. Very
strange as
>there was little wind and no wake from other boats. It lasted about
5
>minutes.
The quake was centered in a remote, sparsely populated area 90 miles
south of Fairbanks and shook for roughly 30 seconds at 2:13 p.m.
Pacific Standard Time. Strong shaking was also reported in Anchorage,
270 miles to the south of the epicenter.
Waves from an earthquake as strong as yesterday's are capable of
traveling around the globe. It is estimated that waves from
yesterday's quake circled the Earth and returned to Alaska,
undetectable by most people, roughly an hour after the ground first
shook.
>
>But our marina is in Lake Ponchatrain in New Orleans! We are
baffled.
>Anyone know what time the earthquake in Alaska was?
>
>Reece
>S/V Traveler
>NOLA
>
>In a message dated 11/4/02 12:46:43 AM, writes:
>
><< 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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