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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BMP_anchorage-aloft_Anchorage-AK.html
Few places on earth need air transportation more than Alaska. Towns and villages are isolated, with few roads and even fewer places to build them. Since 1913, when the first tractor biplane was brought to the Anchorage area, Alaskans have pioneere…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BMN_the-earth-did-quake_Anchorage-AK.html
"And, behold ? The earth did quake and the rocks rent;"Matthew 27:51A description of the first Good Friday The gruesome dance of the earth finally stopped, leaving much of downtown Anchorage in ruins.In four minutes of violent shaking, many buil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BM0_turnagain-heights-slide_Anchorage-AK.html
You are standing on the edge of the Turnagain Heights Slide, the largest and most destructive landslide in Anchorage. Ninety seconds into the Good Friday Earthquake, an 8,000-foot strip of bluff, 1,200 feet wide began cracking apart into larger…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BLZ_tsunami_Anchorage-AK.html
More devastating than the Good Friday Earthquake itself, the seismic sea waves or tsunamis, that followed caused the major loss of life and property in Alaska. Tsunamis are generated by the sudden upward movement of the seafloor along the rupturi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BLW_measuring-the-magnitude-of-damage_Anchorage-AK.html
Measuring the Magnitude of DamageThe Good Friday Earthquake destroyed or severely restricted all forms of transportation, utilities and communications over a large part of south-central Alaska. Communications and UtilitiesThe complete or partia…
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