A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 1, 1946, a magnitude 8.6 earthquake centered near Alaska’s Aleutian Islands triggered a tsunami that pounded the ...

How devastating was the great quake of 1964 ... By John MacKie At 5:36 p.m. on March 27, 1964, a massive earthquake struck Alaska. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the earthquake ...

breaking off great land icebergs which tumbled thunderously ... man named Lawrence Martin when he declared right after the Alaskan earthquake of 1899 that it would set a whole string of coastal ...

Some 75 percent of all earthquakes in the U.S. greater than magnitude five occur in Alaska, and an earthquake occurs in the state every ten minutes on average. The state also experiences two types ...

How devastating was the great quake of 1964? Here’s a summary by John MacKie of the Vancouver Sun, originally published on the 50th anniversary of the disaster. At 5:36 p.m. on March 27, 1964, a ...