Per The Anchorage Daily News, a 5.4-magnitude earthquake was felt throughout south-central Alaska at 11:27 a.m. local time today. Officials said this part of Alaska experiences one or two such quakes per year. There were no immediate reports of damage.

@ak_hepcat, a self-described musician, actor and “geek of all trades,” recorded the first tweet on the earthquake. His breaking tweet was followed be hundreds within minutes.

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   ak_hepcat (Anchorage, Alaska) Earthquake!
   22 Jun 2009 from mbpidgin

Here were some other first tweets as the quake hit, providing the first thoughts from Alaskans experiencing the quake.

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   aekropp (Anchorage, Alaska) My son just faked an earthquake by shaking the kitchen table. But then, we had a REAL earthquake! How weird is that? 22 Jun 2009 from web
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   jessejoseph (Anchorage, Alaska) A kind of big earthquake… For a second I almost made a dash for a door frame. 22 Jun 2009 from UberTwitter
3. 
   wasillakatie (Anchorage, Alaska) Whoah! That was the biggest earthquake I’ve felt since I moved here! 22 Jun 2009 from txt
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   chelsead (Anchorage, Alaska) Hate that post-earthquake feeling. That’s the largest earthquake I’ve ever been through. This place is crazy. 22 Jun 2009 from twhirl
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   muskyox (Anchorage, Alaska) Just rattled by the earthquake. The whole world was topsyturvy 22 Jun 2009 from TwitterFon
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   SmallBizMuse (Anchorage, Alaska) Just had a pretty good earthquake hit near us – http://twurl.nl/oohkeq (location & magnitiude). No damage but things fell off counters. 22 Jun 2009 from twhirl
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   sunhusky (Anchorage, Alaska) @adndotcom Came in waves, no “jolt”. Didn’t time, but lasted awhile, earth still seemed to be moving once wind chimes had quieted, tho’. 22 Jun 2009 from web in reply to adndotcom

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