The great quake how the biggest earthquake in North America changed our understanding of the planet
"In the tradition of Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm, a riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in recorded history in North America--the 1964 Alaskan earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and obliterated the coastal village of Chenega--and the scientist sent to look for geological clues...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Crown,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Map of Alaska
- Map of the Alaska Earthquake of 1964
- Altered state
- Under the mountain
- An accident of geography
- Clam broth and beer
- The floating world
- Spiking out
- Before the storm
- Faults
- Shaken
- Stunned
- The barnacle line
- Rebuilding
- Deep thinking
- Acceptance
- Epilogue.
