Jumping Ahead … We’re Safe

(Posted before I caught up to this point in our trip on 11 August.)

I’ve fallen behind on the footprints for our Alaska road trip, so I wanted to just post a quickie to let everyone who’s reading know that we left Alaska on the 26th … just two days before the 8.2 quake that shook the state and triggered tsunami alerts.

We were grateful to read this morning that there was neither loss of life nor any serious damage from the quake that had its epicenter 50 miles from the Alaskan Peninsula … off the Aleutians … at a depth of 20 miles. From what I understand, it originated in the same subduction zone that triggered the 9.4 earthquake of Good Friday in 1964.

As you can tell from the image below, Alaska is no stranger to earthquakes, but an 8.2 is one that makes one stand up and take notice.Read more