The
Good Friday Earthquake, also "Great Alaska Earthquake" of
March 27,
1964 was the single most powerful earthquake in
United States history. The
epicenter of the
magnitude 9.2 earthquake was in
Prince William Sound in
South Central Alaska. Most of the property damage occurred in
Anchorage, 120 northwest of the epicenter. The earthquake resulted in the deaths of 125 people, almost all from the resulting
tsunamis that plagued the
fjords of Prince William Sound and the
Kenai Peninsula[?]. The duration of the shock felt in Anchorage lasted nearly 3 minutes, and much of the damage in the city was from the resulting landslides and massive land displacement. Nearly every house in the neighboorhood of Turnagain Heights were destroyed in the quake.
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