Businesses left. Entire communities had to relocate and rebuild. But perhaps the Great Alaska Earthquake’s most significant and lasting impact was on science. It struck at a key moment in ...

The Great Alaska Earthquake was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the United States. Its violent tremors reshaped ...

Fifty years ago today, at 5:36 p.m., a magnitude 9.2 earthquake grabbed hold of south-central Alaska and started shaking. It didn’t cease for more than four minutes and was felt as far away as ...

The Great Alaska Earthquake confirmed that theory, said geologist Peter Haeussler, the U.S. Geological Survey's Alaska earthquake-hazards coordinator. "It was only after the '64 earthquake that it ...

The day was March 27, 1964, and they had just lived through the Great Alaska Earthquake. Dickerson’s most significant loss from the earthquake, she wrote in her memoir, came in the aftershocks ...

Time stopped at the start of the ’64 Great Alaska Earthquake, the second largest ever recorded at magnitude 9.2. The ground shook for four to five minutes, roughly twice through “I Want to ...

Time stopped at the start of the '64 Great Alaska Earthquake, the second largest ever recorded at magnitude 9.2. The ground shook for four to five minutes, roughly twice through "I Want to Hold ...

This is “The Daily.” Today, the great Alaska earthquake was the biggest earthquake to ever hit North America. John Mooallem, author of the book “This is Chance!,” on the story of that ...

ACROSS ALASKA, MARTIAL LAW WAS DECLARED ... WHO WAS WITH HER ON THE DAY OF THE GREAT ALASKAN EARTHQUAKE. CURRY: DO YOU REMEMBER THE LAST TIME YOU SAW GRETCHEN OR HEARD FROM HER?

There were great horrors, but what many children remember is missing their supper. The earthquake struck at 5:36 p.m. Alaska Standard Time on Good Friday. When the first shaking hit, many parents ...