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The 1964 Alaska earthquake, known also as the Great Alaskan Earthquake, began at 5:36 P.M. AST on Friday, March 27, 1964. Across south-central Alaska, ground fissures, collapsing buildings, and tsunamis directly caused about 131 deaths. This Alaskan megathrust earthquake is known commonly as The Good Friday Earthquake because it happened on Good Friday of that year.

Lasting nearly five minutes, it was the most powerful recorded earthquake in U.S. and North American history, and the second most powerful ever measured by seismograph. It had a magnitude of 9.2, at the time making it the second largest earthquake in the recorded history of the world.

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7.1 did this in '64.