Who needs an alarm clock? The WifeŽ and I awoke to a smallish 4.89M earthquake at 5:18 this morning. Quakes of this size aren't really a big deal but this one was close and shallow, so it was a fun little ride.
It was what I call a rumble-banger. It started off as a gradually building vibration then right in the middle of it, there was a sharp bang-like tremor...and then it just slowly faded away. What with the pots clanging on the rack still swinging from the ceiling, it was hard to know exactly when it was over.
Here's a
link to quake info from the Alaska Earthquake Information Center.
Their maps suck, though, so I Google mapped the
earthquake location.
For reference, here's
the house in Peters Creek. I'm guesstimatin' that it was about 22 miles SSE of us.