On September 1, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced that there would be no extension for public review of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Cook Inlet Planning Area Lease Sale 244. This is despite numerous requests for extension they’ve received over the past several weeks, including one from Cook Inlet […]
Millions of people live in dimples on the Earth’s surface — often near the ocean, in lowlands between mountain peaks too rugged and cold. One of these global indentations, Cook Inlet Basin, recently showed another characteristic of the planet’s basins — they quiver like a bowl of jelly during an earthquake. Many people in Anchorage […]
Residents throughout south-central Alaska were jolted from their sleep with a huge jolt at 1:30 am that lasted for 30-45 seconds. The quake was initially reported as not one, but two shakers, generated within three seconds of each other and five miles apart. The reported 6.4 and 7.1 quakes, later reported by the USGS as a […]
Alaska State troopers continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the crash of a private plane that went down in Cook Inlet near Birchwood on Thursday, August 6th. Troopers originally reported on Friday of last week that they had received a call informing them that there was a downed aircraft west of the Birchwood Airport. The Rescue Coordination Center […]