Posted on 03/27/2014 10:20:55 AM PDT by hoagy62
Today is the 50th Anniversary of the Great Alaskan Earthquake. It struck at 5:36pm ADT on March 27, 1964. The moment magnitude was 9.2 on the Richter scale.
There were 11 aftershocks on the day of the earthquake over 6.0, and 9 more over the next three weeks.
The Earth "rang" like a bell for several weeks afterward. Vertical ground movements of 5 to 10 cm were detected in Texas and Florida.
This headline just made me feel very old.
I found this at about 2:30: http://youtu.be/6ApwG0QWhIs
Yeah, that’s the amazing part, there were eyewitnesses, and that some of them survived. 1700 elevation is about a third of a mile.
I’ll bet that 4 minutes feels like an eternity when you’re in it. Scary.
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