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The earthquake last Sunday has attracted hundreds of scientists from around the world to see the damage. They are scrambling all over the tundra and mountains to investigate the area before snow covers the evidence. All are in awe of a crack in Alaska 180 miles long, 30 feet wide and 12 miles deep in places. It has collapsed entire mountains, sliced roads in half, cracked glaciers and diverted rivers.

Films shot from helicopters are amazing.

A testament to wilderness Alaska is that in all that chaos there was one injury. An elderly woman broke her arm while running out of her house.
 
Don't fall in that 12 mile deep crack!:sketchy:


Seriously, that is amazing........wonder why we haven't heard anything about it since Sunday? 180 mile long, 30 foot wide and 12 mile deep crack sure should be news!!:(
 
30 feet wide and 12 miles deep "in some places" not the entire crack. Nonetheless, it is impressive on the tv news. Jagged ruptures in the tundra, landslides splitting entire mountiains, fractured glaciers, roads with the center lines offset by several feet. Amazing power moved the earth.:)
 
Thank the Lord it wasn't in a heavily populated area!
I've joked for years that California was going to become an island, NOT FUNNY.
Any links to pics??
SOOOOOOOOOOOO glad you, wife and daughter (and pets) didn't suffer any problems.
Luv ya Smiley
 
I've seen some pics of the area since the quake, but nothing that shows what Alaska is describing at all. All of them are the more minor stuff of cracks in the highway and such.

I would bet that stills of the film will be around soon.

Best is that property damage was minimal and even better that the people were safe.
 
Well I'm gonna go run around looking for pics.....back in a bit...12 miles?

There is a section of the San Andreas Fault near Redlands, California that is right up against the mountains. And I mean to tell ya those babies go almost straight up there with the boulder rubble close to a half mile wide in places near the base.

Back in a bit

pics are here.....good ol google...scroll down to get to the others

http://www.aeic.alaska.edu/input/sigrun/sp...y/northway.html
 
Yep, those are pretty much what I have seen.

Need to find the aerial shots from the copters. I can't find 'em.
 
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