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The 1964 Alaska earthquake, also known as the Great Alaska earthquake and Good Friday earthquake, occurred at 5:36 PM AKST on Good Friday, March 27, 1964. [2] Across south-central Alaska , ground fissures, collapsing structures, and tsunamis resulting from the earthquake caused about 131 deaths.
The 1964 Alaska earthquake was the largest in United States history. The earthquake itself caused 15 deaths and fairly extensive damage to Anchorage, Alaska and surrounding areas. A large tsunami led to 124 further deaths. Total property damage costs were $400 million (1964 rate). To prevent cluttering only aftershocks above magnitude 6.5 will ...
This is an incomplete list of earthquakes in Alaska. Date MMI Mag. Coordinates Depth Deaths Injuries ... 1964-03-27: XI: ... 8.2 M w – 8.5 M s
1916 Irondale earthquake Alaska: 9.2 March 27, 1964 1964 Alaska earthquake American Samoa: 8.3–8.5 June 26, 1917 1917 Samoa earthquake Arizona: 7.6 May 3, 1887 1887 Sonora earthquake Arkansas: 7.6–7.9 December 16, 1811 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes California: 7.9 January 9, 1857 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake Colorado: 6.6 November 8 ...
After the worst earthquake in North American history shocked Anchorage, Alaska, the city leaned on an unlikely savior to see it through the disaster. The post How the First Female Newscaster in ...
It is the U.S.'s most seismically active state and location of the second-largest earthquake ever recorded, according to the Alaska Earthquake Center. In 1964, a magnitude 9.2 earthquake in Prince ...
March 27: The 9.2 M w Alaska earthquake affected anchorage with high intensity shaking that caused the control tower at Anchorage International Airport to collapse, and while the tsunamis (that were so destructive elsewhere) did not affect the city, landslides and other extreme ground deformation had significant impact, causing an estimated ...
An earthquake of magnitude 7.2 struck the Alaska Peninsula region early on Sunday morning, ... In 1964, an earthquake of the reported magnitude 9.2 provoked a huge Tsunami in Alaska, killing 131 ...