1964 Quake: The Great Alaska Earthquake
http://gallery.usgs.gov/videos/755
"1964
Quake: The
Great Alaska Earthquake" is an eleven minute video highlighting the impacts and effects of
America's largest recorded earthquake. It is an expanded version of the four minute video "
Magnitude 9.2". Both were created as part of
USGS activities acknowledging the fifty year anniversary of the quake on March 27, 2014. The video features USGS geologist
George Plafker, who, in the 1960's, correctly interpreted the quake as a subduction zone event. This was a great leap forward in resolving key mechanisms of the developing theory of plate tectonics.
Landslide impacts and the extreme tsunami threat posed by these quakes are also discussed.
Loss of life and destruction from the earthquake and accompanying tsunamis was the impetus for th
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