NOVEMBER 30 -- DECEMBER 5: PART I
ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018 Nov, 29-Dec. 5, 2018 – Part I Friday, Nov. 29, 1918 As their cabin shakes during the night with “such force that it seemed our thin roof could not stand it” – Kent and his son know they won’t be making a trip to Seward in the morning. This “cabin shaking” seems particularly relevant today as I write this on Friday, Nov. 30, 2018. This morning at 8:29 we experienced a 7.0 earthquake, its epicenter about ten miles north of Anchorage. In Seward we had off and on tsunami warnings for a few hours and most of us evacuated to higher ground. Anchorage received significant damage. For Kent night that night of wind and rain, was as close as he came to one of the frequent earthquakes we get in Alaska along this Pacific Rim of Fire. For the...