On March 27, 1964, at 5:36 p.m. local time, the ground below southern Alaska ruptured with unprecedented force. Measuring 9.2 on the moment magnitude scale, the Great Alaska Earthquake was the most ...

Most thought that earthquakes happened on vertical faults. But the scope of the 1964 quake could not be explained by the prevailing theory. An alternative model, that quakes could be caused by faults ...

Scott's Note: Mark Furman is a fellow web producer at our sister station KVAL-TV in Eugene. He put togehter this recap of the great Alaska "Good Friday" Earthquake that hit 50 years ago today. The ...

Earthquakes account for some of the costliest natural disasters in history. They can literally reshape the planet. But how powerful can they get? That's a question humans have only recently been able ...

Vols. 1-2, pt. A: Fergus J. Wood, editor-in-chief; v. 2, pts. B-C, and 3: Louis E. Leipold, editor-in-chief. The phonodisc is from a tape recording made Mar. 27, 1964 ...