Good Friday Earthquake
second most powerful earthquake to hit a region in recorded history
English: The Good Friday Earthquake (also called the Great Alaska Earthquake) of March 27, 1964, was the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history. The magnitude 9.2 earthquake, which resulted in 131 deaths, was centered in Prince William Sound off the coast of South Central Alaska.
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Epicenter -
4th Avenue, Anchorage -
Turnagain Arm -
Landslide damage in the Turnagain Heights neighborhood of Anchorage, Alaska -
Tsunamis caused by the Good Friday Earthquake drove a 2x6 plank through this 10-ply truck tire at Whittier, Alaska -
The waterfront at Seward, Alaska, a few months after the earthquake -
Palmer Hay Flats. The "Ghost Forest" is from the subsidence that occurred in the area as a result of the earthquake. -
Sea level change after the Good Friday Earthquake.
