Alaska Science Forum: The closest people to an 8.2 earthquake

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2. Oh, yes.

I vividly recall the early news on the Good Friday Quake in 1964.

For those of you who don't know much about it or were born after, please read On Shaky Ground by John J. Nance. I have been reading books about earthquakes for literally decades, and this is the most amazing book ever. I first read it in 1989. The first part of the book talks about the 1964 Good Friday earthquake in Alaska. I'm old enough to remember that quake. It was incredible. And especially for those too young to recall those original reports. please read this book. It is amazing. Nance does a phenomenal job of talking about that quake and any number of others. His book was the first time I learned about the New Madrid quakes of 1811-1812. The are almost totally forgotten about today, but were huge, perhaps beyond huge, back then.