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Dec 5, 01, 9:05 pm
A small, rare earthquake struck uninhabited tundra southeast of the oil fields at Prudhoe Bay Monday afternoon, causing no damage but puzzling earthquake experts who weren't quite sure what to make of it.
"There are very, very few up to the north, and I didn't see any at this exact location," said state seismologist Roger Hansen, after checking through a database listing previous North Slope temblors. "But it does show that random earthquakes can happen up there."
The magnitude 4.5 quake hit at 12:35 p.m about 28 miles southeast of Deadhorse at a depth of about 6 miles, according to the Alaska Earthquake Information Center in Fairbanks. It was centered a few miles east of the Shaviovik River about 30 miles south of the Beaufort Sea.
http://www.adn.com/alaska/story/738177p-785910c.html
"There are very, very few up to the north, and I didn't see any at this exact location," said state seismologist Roger Hansen, after checking through a database listing previous North Slope temblors. "But it does show that random earthquakes can happen up there."
The magnitude 4.5 quake hit at 12:35 p.m about 28 miles southeast of Deadhorse at a depth of about 6 miles, according to the Alaska Earthquake Information Center in Fairbanks. It was centered a few miles east of the Shaviovik River about 30 miles south of the Beaufort Sea.
http://www.adn.com/alaska/story/738177p-785910c.html