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30 sty 2023 · The earthquake and tsunami caused $2.8 billion in damage (in 2023 dollars) and killed 136 people. But scientists soon saw it could have been much worse. As a result of the 1964 tsunami, Alaskan communities were the majority of those who died.
28 mar 2020 · He’s acquired loads of photos of the melee in Seaside, found here in this article. “The Seaside tsunami of 1964 was from 8.5 to 19 ft high and came in on a 7.8 ft tide,” Horning said. It all...
16 cze 2014 · The disaster killed more than 100 people in Alaska, eleven people in Crescent City, California, and four children in Oregon. It caused $27 million in damage. As far away as Hawaii, a twelve-foot surge crashed over the beach.
2 lip 2022 · Image: Wolfram Burner. On the evening of March 23, 1964, Seaside resident Margaret Gammon hadn’t been asleep more than an hour or two when she was awakened by howling. It was the community fire siren, blaring at full blast without stopping. She looked at the clock. It was 11:30 p.m.
24 mar 2014 · Fifty years ago, here at Beverly Beach, on a star-lit night, the McKenzie family, from Tacoma, was camping in a lean-to. A tsunami took away their children. A magnitude nine quake off Alaska in 1964 generated a series of waves that grew dramatically higher as they reached the coast four hours later.
22 lip 2015 · Tsunami damage from the 1964 Good Friday Quake. Note the pieces of bridge and the small white house in the background. Those who were heading for high ground via the Ecola Creek Bridge were shocked to find that it was gone.
27 mar 2011 · A tsunami struck the Oregon coast on Friday evening, March 27, 1964 following the great Alaskan earthquake, the second largest earthquake ever recorded and largest ever recorded in North America.
