I remember people in LA sleeping outside cause there were so many after shocks... and even here in SF, we had many after shocks after the major quake. It will take some time to settle down but there will always be micro quakes.. check out this map to see how active we are!



http://scedc.caltech.edu/recent/

This morning's quake in Alaska was a 7.1 (that's big!) but it was very deep, hence no tsunami warnings issued.
The closest major city is Anchorage, about 160 miles to the East of the epicenter.

was also close to 7.1 and yeah that is pretty damn big.

He and a buddy somehow managed to insert a wooden plug in a huge propane tank's ruptured gas line. He had spewing propane all over his face and arms, but they got it plugged! It really messed him up though. He said it was so bad, that it threw him to the floor in his house and he couldn't walk, he had to crawl to get outside. He lived close to the epicenter!
I remember exactly where I was when that earthquake struck. I live in Washington State and I was driving in my truck to town listening to the radio when the breaking news came on!

The initial earthquake, if I read it correctly was a 4.7, not all that strong so far as earthquakes go. There are thousands of earthquakes of that magnitude every year, hundreds of thousands in the range of the aftershocks.

We haven't had a major earthquake in this country since the 1994 Northridge quake, at least in terms of property damage or fatalities. Someday there will be another big one in or near a populated area. It's just part of what living on this planet is all about, like hurricanes, tornadoes, and blizzards.

Here is a link to the USGS web page and a snip from their observations:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10004gqp#general_summary

Tectonic Summary
The January 24, 2016 M 7.1 earthquake southwest of Anchorage, Alaska, occurred as the result of strike-slip faulting at intermediate depths, within the subducted lithosphere of the Pacific plate. In the region of the earthquake, the Pacific plate moves northwestward with respect to North America at a rate of 60 mm/yr, and begins its decent into the mantle at the Alaska-Aleutian Trench almost 400 km to the southeast of this earthquake. The mechanism and depth of the earthquake are consistent with its occurrence within the interior of the subducted Pacific plate, rather than on the shallower plate boundary thrust between Pacific and North America. The focal mechanism indicates faulting occurred on either a northwest striking right-lateral structure, or on a northeast striking, left-lateral fault.

That's how earthquakes work. I was in a magnitude c. 7 one, and we had aftershocks for days - it was the only time I've ever felt an earthquake outdoors. We were still getting them six months later. Now if there were no aftershocks, that would be something remarkable.

At least no one (that I've seen, yet) has been going on about fracking - yet.