Showing posts with label Alaska Earthquake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alaska Earthquake. Show all posts

Sunday, January 24, 2016

Last "Big One" shook the Pacific Northwest 316 years ago Tuesday

Magnitude 6.8 Earthquake Hits Southern AlaskaThis story is adapted from information provided by the National Weather Service Pacific Tsunami Warning CenterJust before midnight on January 27, 1700, a tsunami struck the coast of Japan without warning.No one in Japan felt the earthquake that caused it.Nearly 300 years later, scientists and historians in Japan and the United States solved the mystery of what caused this "orphan...
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