Earthquake !

 if you were looking for somewhere that was a hotbed of seismic activity, would Alaska be your first thought?

 Well Alaska has 11% of all earthquakes on the planet.......who knew??
Thats because it lies on the Pacific ring of fire which is where tectonic plates meet, most of the areas are warmer but Alaska is in this region too.

Every day there are between 5 and 20 earthquakes in Alaska which go largely unnoticed by the population and largely no effect on the ground, although it might explain the cracks in the roads

Alaska is also the site of the second largest recorded earthquake in history 9.2, unsurprisingly it became known as the "Great earthquake " of 1964. If you bear in mind that each 2 is ten stronger than 1 and 3 is 10 times stronger than 2, this thing was massive, it destroyed buildings around Anchorage and Tsunamis in the harbours.
 You can still see some of the evidence today, this is a house that was swallowed up in the earthquake and is still there at mile 90 on the Seward highway

When the ground cracked, salt sea water rushed in and with the Tsunami as well, whole forests of trees were killed and left there like ghosts, its thicker "forest" further on but I had already taken a bit of a risk stopping to photo the house so I didnt stop again when there was more trees!

Last
The last Evening in Anchorage I went down to point Woronzof park near the airport to watch the sun creep just below the horizon

Camera
Still not mad on the camera as it doesnt have a through glass function but some of the photos on the flights home were ok

Rain in the desert in Phoenix

And the queue of planes it caused!  

Of course theyre all white and fluffy, they have just rained all their water on Phoenix!