Sunday morning, a gas leak after the earthquake caused that house to explode not once, but twice, he said.
One of the people who lost everything on Sunday after the earthquake is Vinnie Calderon.Ĭalderon and his family gathered at the armory with others who had lost their homes or who were evacuated along or near Lilac Lane.Ĭalderon, his fiancee and two children had just moved into a home on Lilac Lane in Kenai recently, after previously spending time homeless and couch-surfing. Concerns over continued gas escapement prompted officials to evacuate residents along several roads in the area and establish a shelter at the National Guard Armory in Kenai. Hours after the quake, Kenai Fire Department crews were still at the scene of a "gas leak/explosion" and several fires in the area of Lilac Lane, off the Kenai Spur Highway. The Kenai Peninsula bore the brunt of the damage. Isolated power outages were reported throughout the region. There were no immediate reports of injuries. The quake knocked items off shelves and walls and shook buildings throughout Alaska's most populated region. The Alaska Earthquake Center said it hit on the west side of Cook Inlet, about 65 miles west of Homer and about 160 miles southwest of Anchorage, at a depth of 76 miles. The quake struck at 1:30 a.m., according to the U.S. Southcentral Alaska was rocked by a strong and prolonged magnitude-7.1 earthquake early Sunday morning, destroying four homes on the Kenai Peninsula and rattling nerves throughout the region.
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