The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet by Henry Fountain
The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
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Henry Fountain
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The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet

Henry Fountain

277 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous emotional slow-paced
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On March 27, 1964, at 5-36 p.m., the biggest earthquake ever recorded in North America--and the second biggest ever in the world, measuring 9.2 on the Richter scale--struck Alaska, devastating coastal towns and villages and killing more than 130 p...

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