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- The tsunami was unusually powerful for the size of the earthquake. The event was classified as a tsunami earthquake due to the discrepancy between the size of the tsunami and the relatively low surface wave magnitude. The large-scale destruction prompted the creation of the Seismic Sea Wave Warning System, which later became the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in 1949.
weewooweewoo · 2574 days ago · link ·
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.
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user-inactivated · 2571 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.