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- Date Uploaded:
- 8 Dec 2011
- Date Created:
- 1964 - -
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- 29.97 FPS
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- Duration:
- 00:00:15,02
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The 1964 Alaska earthquake, also known as the GREAT ALASKA EARTHQUAKE, the Portage Earthquake and the Good Friday Earthquake, was a megathrust earthquake that began at 5:36 P.M. AST on Good Friday, March 27, 1964. Across south-central Alaska, ground fissures, collapsing buildings, and tsunamis resulting from the earthquake caused about 131 deaths. Lasting nearly four 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 recorded history.
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The 1964 Alaska earthquake, also known as the GREAT ALASKA EARTHQUAKE, the Portage Earthquake and the Good Friday Earthquake, was a megathrust earthquake that began at 5:36 P.M. AST on Good Friday, March 27, 1964. Across south-central Alaska, ground fissures, collapsing buildings, and tsunamis resulting from the earthquake caused about 131 deaths. Lasting nearly four 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 recorded history.
Location: All Around Alaska State, United States
Source: Digital telecine HD frame-by-frame transfer of archival 16mm film footage


