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 ...

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 was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the United States. Its violent tremors reshaped ...

While the 1906 San Francisco quake might be more famous — it was the deadliest in the country, killing more than 3,000 people — the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake, as it’s known, was more ...

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 ...

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 ...

The massive magnitude-9.2 Alaska earthquake changed the world by proving plate tectonics works. Since the quake struck on March 27, 1964, there has never been another earthquake as powerful.