Alaska Earthquake

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History

 

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Aretha T

 

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November 5, 2015

 

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University

 

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However, casualties were significantly low for such a powerful disaster, both physically and economically. The purpose of this paper is to provide a general overview of the 1964 Alaskan earthquake and describe the economic effects that followed. The extensive geological disruption and strength has caused the '64 earthquake to become one of the most studied earthquakes in history...
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However, the continual research being conducted has lead to a wide array of contradictory information. Because no seismic instruments capable of recording strong ground motions were in Alaska before the earthquake, most measurements were calculated from tele-seismic records. According to a book sanctioned by the Committee on the Alaska Earthquake of the Division of Earth Sciences National Research Council in 1970, the magnitude of the '64 earthquake on the Richter scale ranged between 8...
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