11000 miles per hour

I read an article called “Denali’s Fault” and it was written by, Laura Naranjo. It’s the things we hear about every day that happen that we don’t pay attention to or think it might be worthwhile to learn how to protect ourselves against, that are most commonly called natural disasters. It happened the afternoon of November 12th, in Seattle, the lakes were at unrest and began to cause frightening sloshing of water that knocked over many boats and as far away as Texas and Louisiana had the same effects too. The leading cause was Alaska’s Denali Fault that had been moving and caused a 7.9 earthquake. Unbelievable, right?
This earthquake lasted for a total of three minutes. It doesn’t seem especially long to you or me but when you are in the middle of a disaster and you begin to panic and worry, 3 minutes could seem close to 3 hours. This earthquake shot straight east at nearly 11000 miles per hour reaching another fault line and causing more havoc at far off states and countries. This was a natural disaster, things like this happen every day and its up to us to be prepared and ready to protect ourselves if the time does indeed come.
http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/hazards/Earthquakes-articles.html
Naranjo , Laura. "Denali's Fault ." Intute. (does not say). Intute. 3 Feb 2009 .