Alaska rattled by more than 1,400 aftershocks since Friday earthquake; could last two weeks

Alaska has been rattled by more than 1,400 aftershocks since the 7.0-magnitude quake that damaged roads, buildings and other infrastructure on Friday, and experts said on Monday.

“You can expect earthquakes in magnitude 5 or 4 to continue for the next couple of weeks, and as time goes on it tapers off,” Rafael Abreu, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earthquake Science Center, told the Anchorage Daily News.

Of the aftershocks recorded by Sunday evening, 593 had been magnitude 2.0 or more, the Anchorage Daily News reported, with 17 of at least 4.0, and five of them at 5.0 or more.

The epicenter was about eight miles north of Anchorage. No one died in the temblor, which trashed highways and ripped sinkholes open.