The port after the quake. Additional photos below/Jim Jager photo
The Port of Anchorage – the major entry point for the vast majority of all goods into the state of Alaska – appears to have come through Friday’s 7.0 earthquake in good shape.
Port spokesman Jim Jager said the port is temporarily shut down for a safety inspection, but there appears no significant structural damage.
A tanker tied up at the docks when the quake hit off loading fuel, but manage to safely shut down the fuel transfer. None was spilled, Jager said.
But he did report damage to the north of the port in an area of trouble–plagued port expansion.
A bottomless crack has opened there he said. Engineers had warned of soil instability.
Port offices, like many offices in Anchorage, did take a beating, he added, with wall hangings coming down and comptuer monitors falling off desks.
Minor damage to dock surfaces, but no structural damage reported/Jim Jager photo
North of the port where there have been tangled plans for expansion and engineers warnings of unstable soils/Jim Jager photo
CORRECTION: An early version of this story reported erroneously reported the tanker broke some of its mooring lines.