{"id":35576,"date":"2025-11-28T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T05:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=35576"},"modified":"2025-11-28T05:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T05:00:10","slug":"maps-6-0-magnitude-earthquake-shakes-alaska-near-anchorage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=35576","title":{"rendered":"Maps: 6.0-Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Alaska Near Anchorage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"g-credit-note svelte-6t0d6y\">Note: Map shows the area with a shake intensity of 3 or greater, which U.S.G.S. defines as \u201cweak,\u201d though the earthquake may be felt outside the areas shown.<\/span>  <span class=\"g-credit-note g-note-outage g-outages-timestamp svelte-6t0d6y\">\u00a0All times on the map are Alaska time.<\/span> <span class=\"g-credit-note svelte-6t0d6y\">The New York Times<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text svelte-urmhfi\">A strong, 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck in Alaska on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text svelte-urmhfi\">The temblor happened at 8:11 a.m. Alaska time about 7 miles northwest of Susitna, Alaska, or about 35 miles northwest of Anchorage, data from the agency shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text svelte-urmhfi\">Some Alaskans said on social media that the earthquake was an unexpected wake-up alarm on Thanksgiving morning. The earthquake was felt across the south-central part of the state and as far away as Fairbanks, 245 miles to the north, according to the Alaska Earthquake Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text svelte-urmhfi\">For some residents, the morning shake was a reminder of a powerful quake that also struck near Anchorage in late November, at a similar time of the morning, seven years ago. The 2018 earthquake was 7.1 in magnitude and crippled infrastructure in the southern part of the state.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"g-subhed theme-  svelte-5e0d74\">Aftershocks in the region<\/h2>\n<p class=\"g-text svelte-urmhfi\">An aftershock is usually a smaller earthquake that follows a larger one in the same general area. Aftershocks are typically minor adjustments along the portion of a fault that slipped at the time of the initial earthquake.<\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"svelte-1f9zazf\">Quakes and aftershocks within 100 miles<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text svelte-urmhfi\">Aftershocks can occur days, weeks or even years after the first earthquake. These events can be of equal or larger magnitude to the initial earthquake, and they can continue to affect already damaged locations.<\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"svelte-17zkoti\">When quakes and aftershocks occurred<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text svelte-urmhfi\">Source: United States Geological Survey | Notes: Shaking categories are based on the Modified Mercalli Intensity scale. When aftershock data is available, the corresponding maps and charts include earthquakes within 100 miles and seven days of the initial quake. All times above are Alaska time. Shake data is as of Thursday, Nov. 27 at 12:26 p.m. Eastern. Aftershocks data is as of Thursday, Nov. 27 at 11:42 p.m. Eastern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text svelte-urmhfi\">Maps: Daylight (urban areas); MapLibre (map rendering); Natural Earth (roads, labels, terrain); Protomaps (map tiles)<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text svelte-urmhfi\">As seismologists review available data for Thursday\u2019s initial quake, they may revise the earthquake\u2019s reported magnitude. Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: Map shows the area with a shake intensity of 3 or greater, which U.S.G.S. defines as \u201cweak,\u201d though the earthquake may be felt outside the areas shown. \u00a0All times on the map are Alaska time. The New York Times A strong, 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck in Alaska on Thursday, according to the United States Geological<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[20020,8447,3764,2417,8557,7692],"class_list":{"0":"post-35576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-6-0magnitude","9":"tag-alaska","10":"tag-anchorage","11":"tag-earthquake","12":"tag-maps","13":"tag-shakes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}