A random email, this time interesting. You may have heard about the recent 7.9 earthquake off the coast of Alaska. But did you hear about this resultant?
Tuesday’s 7.9 magnitude earthquake in the Gulf of Alaska sent vibrations through the earth that caused water to rise and fall in wells in Florida, thousands of miles away.
Sensors near Fort Lauderdale and Madison, near the Georgia border, showed a minor change in water levels after the earthquake, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
A water level rise from 41.59 feet to 41.77 feet was recorded at the well near Madison before it returned to normal. At the well near Fort Lauderdale, the water level fell from 1.42 feet to 1.31 feet.
Why did water levels in these wells some 3,800 miles away from the earthquake’s epicenter change?
A 7.9 earthquake is nothing to sneeze at, of course, but we were fortunate that it was off the coast and not on land, like the Alaska 9.2 earthquake of 1964.
The 1964 Alaska Earthquake.
Source: Wikipedia
