Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events.
Anchorage, Alaska – Back-to-back earthquakes shook Southcentral Alaska on Saturday morning, sending sharp tremors across communities from Beluga to Point MacKenzie and into the Anchorage Bowl. The stronger jolt, a magnitude-5.0 centered about 9 kilometers northwest of Beluga, was felt across the Cook Inlet shoreline and prompted early reports of light shaking.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the M5.0 struck at 15:38 UTC, followed just two minutes earlier by a magnitude-4.9 roughly 19 kilometers west of Point MacKenzie. Both quakes originated deep underground, with the first at 76.8 kilometers and the second at 45.1 kilometers, a depth range typical for the seismically active region…