Chilkat Valley residents reported a big midday shake last week as a 4.4 magnitude earthquake struck 20 miles southwest of Klukwan in Glacier Bay on Thursday, July 8.
“The two well-known faults are kind of east and west of it,” said Natalia Ruppert, a seismologist with the Alaska Earthquake Center. “This earthquake was not on either of those faults.”
Ruppert said the quake was between the Denali and Fairweather faults, in an area where earthquakes…
