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Essay heading: Alaska Earthquake
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Newer research has estimated the strength of the Alaskan earthquake at a 9.2 on the Moment Magnitude scale, making it the third strongest earthquake in the world and strongest in the Northern Hemisphere.
More recent research in the late 1980's and 1990's has shed light on the cause of the '64 earthquake...
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Dr. George Pararas-Carayannis, one of the nation's foremost authorities on earthquakes and tsunamis, states "The Pacific tectonic plate movement caused the crust of southern Alaska to be compressed and warped, with some areas along the coast being depressed while other areas inland are being uplifted...
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