Residents in Alaska were shaken awake on Thanksgiving Day when a powerful 6.0 earthquake rattled southcentral Alaska on Thursday morning.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey’s Earthquake Hazards Program, the earthquake struck at 8:11 a.m. local time. It was reportedly centered 26 miles southwest of Willow at a depth of 43 miles.
Shortly after the quake, the Alaska Earthquake Center tweeted that the earthquake, just 37 miles outside of Anchorage, “was felt widely throughout south-central Alaska, and as far as Fairbanks.”…