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weewooweewoo · 2580 days ago · link · · parent · post: TIH: April 1, 1946- An Earthquake in Alaska generates a Tsunami that kills more than 100 people in Hawaii
Alaskans grow up just learning about the (9.2 earthquake in 1964)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Alaska_earthquake]. I wonder if Hawaiians cover this in their education system.
user-inactivated · 2578 days ago · link ·
Ahh yea, the Good Friday Quake. That earthquake killed people in California, or at least the tsunami did. As you turn around the point and look at Kodiak the city for the first time, there is an odd line about 100 feet up the hillside. That is where the wall of water slammed into the island and wiped the original city off the flipping map. Notice the tree line? everything under that treeline was wiped out when the tsunami hit.