A Department of Transportation project manager said the damage will take several days to repair, but didn't have an exact timeline. The road fell away between Eklutna and Mirror Lake. Aftershocks and ground settling caused even more damage Saturday, said Shannon McCarthy, a spokeswoman with the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities.Ī section of the Glenn Highway damaged by Friday's earthquake. Major damage was reported on state roads in at least eight areas, and cracks and shifting earth indefinitely halted train service between Anchorage and Fairbanks. The shifting earth did wreak havoc on transportation networks north of Anchorage.
“We are on the road to returning to normal,” Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz declared at a news conference Saturday morning. Hospitals and airports were fully functional Saturday and businesses were beginning to reopen. And despite widespread reports of varying degrees of structural damage, no buildings entirely collapsed, which officials credited to Anchorage’s strict building codes. The day after, people all over Southcentral Alaska were rattled and anxious.īut relief was tangible as Anchorage officials reported that there were no deaths, and generally minor injuries - a broken arm, cuts from glass. The size of the quake and a risk of underwater landslides in Cook Inlet triggered an unusual localized tsunami warning. Seismologists called the earthquake the most significant in Anchorage since the 1964 Good Friday earthquake, in terms of how strong the ground itself shook and severity of impact. 10, and many schools in the Mat-Su Borough will be closed until at least Wednesday.
Schools in Anchorage will be closed until Dec. The violent shaking left many homes a mess, and aftershocks continued through the night and through the day Saturday. The 7.0 earthquake jolted Anchorage and the rest of Southcentral Alaska on Friday morning, cracking and collapsing roads and highways, damaging buildings, knocking out power and sending people scrambling outside and under furniture.
(Loren Holmes / ADN)Ī collapsed section of road on the Glenn Highway north of Anchorage is set to snarl traffic for days as Southcentral Alaska pivoted from crisis response to cleanup in the area’s most significant earthquake in a half-century. The bridge reopened late Saturday afternoon. The bridge was damaged during a strong earthquake that shook southcentral Alaska on Friday. Workers repair damage to a Glenn Highway bridge in Eagle River on Saturday morning, Dec. Updated: DecemPublished: December 1, 2018
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