'A big one': 7.0 earthquake rocks Anchorage, Alaska; pipeline, flights, roads shut down..

President Donald Trump, who was briefed on the earthquake, tweeted that the federal government would "spare no expense" in helping Alaska through the quake's aftermath.
Alaska averages 40,000 earthquakes a year, with more large quakes than the other 49 states combined.
Anchorage has been hit hard before. A 1964 earthquake that registered 9.2, the largest ever in the U.S. and the second largest ever recorded, caused extensive damage to the city and resulted in 129 deaths.
Corey Hester, the Executive Director of the Alaska Airmen Association, was awaken out of his sleep by the rumbling.
“The bedframe in both of my bedrooms started jolting against the walls pretty violent and aggressively,” Hester said. After fumbling around to find his eyeglasses he grabbed a flashlight and surveyed the damage in his second-floor apartment.
“There was minor structural damage to the sheetrock in the living room. Right up the road there’s a street with a pretty decent split it. Now, it serves as the resident speed bump, I suppose,” Hester said.
Hester took to Facebook to share video of the carnage in his apartment. Shelves in the kitchen slid out of place, groceries fell out of the cupboard and picture frames fell off the shelves.
One of the aftershocks hits midway through the 37-second clip causing pots and pans to rattle as a leather chair in the living room pulses up  and down on the hardwood floors. The video has garnered over 37,000 views within 5 hours.
“The aftershocks were stronger than any of the other earthquakes I’ve experienced here in Alaska,” Hester said.

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