Magnitude-6.7 quake strikes remote area off Alaska coast.
1965 ALASKA QUAKE PROFESSIONAL
The collection contains personal and professional papers, as well as audiotapes of broadcasts from March 1964 through 1965, concerning the earthquake and recovery efforts. His account of that evening and what followed appeared in the Caltech magazine, Engineering and Science, in the following month. Largest earthquake in US since 1965 rattles Alaska, no major damage or injury reported. She later served in the Alaska legislature as state representative from 1969-1975 and state senator from 1975-1979.
Geological Survey reports that: The earthquake caused rivers, lakes, and other waterways to slosh as far away as the coasts of Texas and Louisiana. local time, the earth began to shake in the subduction zone in the Prince William Sound in Alaska. (Source: AEIC: Alaska Earthquake Information Center )īack in Pasadena, seismologist Charles Richter was alerted by the seismograph in his living room that a big quake was happening. On Good Friday, March 27, 1964, at 5:36 p.m. The tsunami that followed was the second largest ever recorded-following the Chilean tsunami of 1960. The shaking was felt all over Alaska, in part of Canada, and south to Washington State. The duration of rupture lasted approximately 4 minutes (240 seconds). Paul Whitmore, Director, NOAA National Tsunami Warning Center Michael West, State Seismologist, Director, Alaska Earthquake Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks When: Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, triggering tsunami warnings for much of the Gulf of Alaska coastline, but no large waves. This earthquake is the second largest earthquake ever recorded in the world after a magnitude 9.5 earthquake in Chile in 1960. A major earthquake struck near the Alaska Peninsula at 10:15 p.m. 147.73W, at a depth of approximately 25 km. The epicenter was about 10 km east of the mouth of College Fiord, approximately 90 km west of Valdez and 120 km east of Anchorage. Alaska time (03:36 3/28/64 UTC), a great earthquake of magnitude 9.2 occurred in the Prince William Sound region of Alaska. 400 Years: Observing Galileo's Telescope.Nobel Physicists at Caltech: A Long History.Ditch Day: Caltech’s Zany Brainy Olympics.ThIs type of deposit tends to vibrate like jello wIth a greater amplItude than bedrock areas. The magnitude of this quake measured 8.4 - 8.6 on the Richter Scale and was reported as a 9.2 Moment Magnitude (Mw). The making of Caltech’s first Nobel: Robert Millikan’s road to Stockholm damage in the San FrancIsco quake of 1906 was on the 'Barbary Coast' whIch was built on fill over harbor muck.Archimedes & the Recovery of Greek Mathematics in Italy.50 Years of the Owens Valley 130-Foot Radio Telescope.“Scientific Researches!-New Discoveries in PNEUMATICKS!”.
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