Two Large Earthquakes Shake Alaska Sunday

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The USGS has reported that a pair of large earthquakes shook South-central Alaska Sunday evening, July 5, 2015.

According to the Alaska Dispatch News [1]:

The first earthquake hit at 4:49 p.m., had a magnitude of 4.9, and was centered 38 kilometers southwest of Talkeetna, according to the USGS [2]. A second earthquake less than a minute later shook nearly the same location and had a magnitude of 5.1.

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The Alaska Earthquake Information Center also listed two earthquakes, a minute apart — one at magnitude-4.72 at 4:49 p.m., and a second at 4:50 p.m., which registered as magnitude-4.75.

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Earlier Sunday, an earthquake struck 20 kilometers northwest of the Arctic community of Kaktovik, in the Arctic Ocean off the North Slope coastline. That earthquake, which occurred at 11:26 a.m., registered as magnitude-4.6, according to USGS.

Sources:

[1] http://www.adn.com/article/20150705/magnitude-48-earthquake-hits-southcentral-alaska

[2] http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/#%7B%22feed%22%3A%221day_m25%22%2C%22search%22%3Anull%2C%22listFormat%22%3A%22default%22%2C%22sort%22%3A%22newest%22%2C%22basemap%22%3A%22grayscale%22%2C%22autoUpdate%22%3Atrue%2C%22restrictListToMap%22%3Atrue%2C%22timeZone%22%3A%22utc%22%2C%22mapposition%22%3A%5B%5B56.41390137600676%2C-160.94970703125%5D%2C%5B64.85827416038332%2C-141.1083984375%5D%5D%2C%22overlays%22%3A%7B%22plates%22%3Atrue%7D%2C%22viewModes%22%3A%7B%22list%22%3Atrue%2C%22map%22%3Atrue%2C%22settings%22%3Afalse%2C%22help%22%3Afalse%7D%7D