Youth Safety Day drew hoards of happy children to the Regal Cinemas parking lot, where they roamed from station to station enjoying various and sundry safety associated activities.
Among the favorites were the bicycling stations, where helmets were handed out and bikes repaired for free, and kids navigated through dozens of orange cones while participating in the Bike Rodeo.
There was also an Earthquake Cabin, designed to convey the experience of a real earthquake without the real relative dangers. Earthquakes are certainly a part of life in the Interior. In fact there are earthquakes nearly every day in Alaska, and once in a while, they are strong enough to be felt here.
If you’ve never experienced an earthquake, it’s difficult to describe, but first it hits your ears, with the rattling, then you feel the shaking. So far we’ve been lucky enough to only have very minor damages from the few strong ones that have occurred since we’ve been here.
For a list of recent earthquakes and an interactive map, click on this link.
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