Alaska Earthquake: A 6.0-magnitude earthquake jolted Alaska on Thursday morning, the United States Geological Survey reported. The quake struck at 8:11 a.m. local time, with its epicenter located roughly 7 miles northwest of Susitna and about 35 miles from Anchorage. Residents across south-central Alaska and even in Fairbanks, nearly 250 miles away reported feeling the shaking, according to the Alaska Earthquake Center.
An unexpected tremor on Thanksgiving morning stirred memories of the stronger 7.1-magnitude earthquake that hit the Anchorage area in late November 2018 around the same morning hour. This event had caused significant damage to infrastructure throughout southern Alaska.
In Anchorage, Municipal inspectors did not find any issues in public infrastructure after the earthquake, according to a post by Mayor Suzanne LaFrance on social media.
Earlier, on Thursday, a powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.6 struck Indonesia’s Sumatra. According to the National Centre for Seismology, the tremor was recorded at 10.26 am. The earthquake’s epicentre was located 10 km below the ground. It was about 515 km south-southeast of Campbell Bay in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, 606 km west of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and over 1,000 km south-southeast of Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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