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Weather/news reports here in the San Francisco Bay Area quote Lousiana
seismologists as saying that the quake's effects were indeed felt that
far away. Indeed, they claim that the swimming pool in one of the
Univerity's facilities sloshed enough water over the side to partially
flood the rest of the building!
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, John Callahan wrote:
> 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?
Paul Goyette
m/v Gentle Wind
61' Cheoy Lee LRC
(currently on the hard in Ft.Pierce, FL)
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