Medical Definition of leach. 1  1: to subject to the action of percolating liquid (as water) in order to separate the soluble components. 2  2: to dissolve out by the action of a percolating liquid. 3  intransitive verb.
The Pacific Plate is moving northwestwardly under the North American Plate at a rate of approximately 2.5 inches per year, resulting in many fault lines. Earthquakes are very common and there are an average of 50-100 earthquakes throughout Alaska--daily! In fact, Alaska has more earthquakes per year than all other U.S. states combined! The picture above, taken in Portage, Alaska near Anchorage, is one of the many remnants of the famous 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake. The magnitude 9.2 quake which shook South-Central Alaska on March 27, 1964 at 5:36 p.m. Alaska Standard Time, lasted for over four minutes and was felt around the world.
However, The Inquisitr also noted that residents felt displaced and affected enough by the outage. âThere are vendors here who are out of business,â commented Johnny Rice to the Alaska Dispatch News. Additionally, residents in the Kodiak area of Alaska suffered a magnitude 3.9 earthquake with no reported damages. Seismologist Natasha Ruppert states that it is âunusualâ for so many unrelated earthquakes to happen in different parts of Alaska.