Earthquake!

Well folks, looks like we JUST missed an earthquake, 5.0 on the Richter scale. Darn! That would have really added icing on the cake of our adventure. (I was even kind of wishing for a LITTLE one...we were close, but no cigar!) It happened this morning (August 19th), almost exactly 10 hours after we left. The epicenter was about 30 miles from Anchorage, and the tremors were felt throughout the Kenai Peninsula (which includes Homer, Whittier, Seward).

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n191557

Note: The AK earthquake of 1964 measured 9.2 on the Richter scale; 10,200 times as powerful as today's! (No wonder my father had a hard time staying on his bicycle while on his paper route back in '64.)

It appears there were several much smaller earthquakes in the areas of Alaska we were visiting while we were there: http://www.aeic.alaska.edu/Seis/recenteqs/index.html