M7.5 Southern Alaska 1/5/2013
An M7.5 earthquake has just occurred off southern Alaska at 8:58:16 1/5/2013 UTC (11:58:16 pm 1/4/2013 local time), just at the NW tip of the area identified in the previous blog as having undergone a rapid change in the last several days. Hypocenter depth was 9.9 km, and a tsunami warning has been issued. More as the story develops. A screenshot from the earthquake viewer is shown below. The mechanism for this event was right lateral strike slip (horizontal slip) so a great tsunami is probably unlikely.
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Steven Ward is a Research Geophysicist at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UC Santa Cruz. He specializes in the quantification and simulation of natural hazards. Read Steve's blog.
John Rundle is a Distinguished Professor of Physics and Geology at UC Davis and the Executive Director of the APEC Collaboration for Earthquake Simulations. He chaired the Board of Advisors for the Southern California Earthquake Center from 1994 to 1996. Read John's blog.