A Surge of Earthquakes in Alaska Is Raising Red Flags

A strong sea earthquake, 16 billion July 16 billion miles (16 billion 15 kilometers a lifting tsunami warning. Fortunately, wave can never cause minimal damage, but in the near future.

Five earthquakes in the power of 7.2 percent since 2020 hit the southern coast of Alaska. It is unusual for the seismic activity to take place in this part of seismic activity because he works on an active tectonic plate border called Aleutian Subdukxic Zone. Again, seeing five great earthquakes in the nearest part of each other for five years, Michael West, Alaska’s State Seismologist and Director of the Alaska Earthquake Center, seismologists. Western Gizmodo said that the southern coast seems to be the earthquake sequence. This sequence of Wednesday’s earthquake is the last, the larger earthquakes or even a huge few years, it is possible that it is possible.

“Five earthquakes are enough to be statistically important,” he said. “This area is a clear area of other areas of this particular border – this area is clearly in a period.”

The stresses collected along the border between two convergers tectonic tiles suddenly occur by earthquakes that suddenly slip over each other. Sometimes an earthquake is enough to be free of stress in a certain part, but not always. Probably, it can take many earthquakes in a few years to release a structure of an important stress on the South Coast of Alaska.

On Wednesday, the earthquake occurred in the southeast of a small town in the Aleutian Islands. According to the US Geological Survey, the strike slide – two tectonic plates, when two tectonic plates lie on top of each other in the aleutia subduction zone. Seismologists have clearly focused on this part of the plate border since the 1980s, when they determined it as an area of tectonic stress collection. It took another 40 years to finally result in the stress of structure.

“Starting in 2020, ‘Okay, now it’s time to do the work of this special segment,” the West said.

This lucky and “noteworthy” – none of the great earthquakes that hit this area since 2020 did not produce tsunami. Seismologists can trigger a wide range of vast oceans, destructive, the Pacific Subduction zone. In 1946, for example, 8.6 magnitude earthquake shakes this plate cause A tsunami who browsing all the way to the coast of Antarctica brave More than 150 people in Hawaii. The epicenter of the earthquake of his heart was only 100 miles away from the earthquake on Wednesday.

At present, the earthquake sequence in this part of the Aleutia Subduction Zone can lead to several different scenarios. On Wednesday, the earthquake releases all the collected stress in this segment, seismic activity can calm down and stay calm for decades. Alternatively, it can have a magnitude of 7 to 8 or 9 points.

“The results of societies are very different for these two different ways,” he said. Unlike the relatively sequence earthquake, in the past five years there has been in the southern coast of Alaska likely to produce a dangerous tsunami and damaged soil shaking. Fortunately, “Very strong training efforts continue in these communities,” he said. “Every community near here is studied for the potential of my own water.”

He said, “We can always study more,” he said. “We always exercised to help people use this information and how to understand how it works. You don’t have much time [during] events like this. “