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 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 ...

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 ...

Measuring 9.2 on the moment magnitude scale, the Great Alaska Earthquake was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the United States, and the second strongest globally. Its violent tremors ...

When the Great Alaska Earthquake convulsed the south-central region of that vast state on March 27, 1964, the energy released by the upheaval — the largest quake in recorded North American ...

the largest earthquake ever recorded in North America, and the second largest in history, rattled coastal Alaska for close to 4 minutes. Though the epicenter of the Great Alaskan Earthquake was ...

The quake, which occurred on the Christian holiday of Good Friday, is known as the Great Alaska Earthquake and the Good Friday Earthquake. For many Alaskans, the events of that day will be forever ...

Although scientists had thoroughly documented the shocking devastation from the Great Alaska earthquake, the actual spread of the seismic waves throughout the region wasn't well understood.

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 ...

Today: Genie Chance and the Great Alaska Earthquake. It’s Thursday, December 31. archived recording Well, I suppose you want to know where I was when this disaster took place. I was driving on ...