The Pacific “Ring of Fire” is doing its impression of Jerry Lee Lewis with a “whole lotta shakin’ going on” over the last day. Four earthquakes of a magnitude of 6 or greater shook three points on the “ring.”

The first struck in Chile with a magnitude 6.8 quake. The quake centered about 24 miles north of Vallenar and was felt as far away as the capital city of Santiago. One woman died of a heart attack that local officials attributed to stress brought on by the strong quake.

Buildings in the slums of Vallenar suffered collapsed walls. Telecommunications and electricity was out across the region and is slowly being repaired.

A few hours later, twin quakes struck the Solomon Islands on the other side of the Pacific. The area is sparsely populated with the closest town only having 550 residents. No reports of damage or injury has yet come in from the region.

The final quake struck this morning around 5 a.m. along the southern tip of Alaska when a 6.0 magnitude quake woke up residents. The Alaskan Earthquake Center is calling today’s quake an “aftershock” from a quake on January 5th that measured 7.5 on the Richter scale.

No damage or injuries have been reported from the latest quake.

The good news in the rumbling is that none of the quakes triggered a tsunami.