Word: alaskas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gaping fissures in their streets on Good Friday 1964, Alaskans suspected that they had survived one of the most violent earthquakes in history. Now, after three years of soundings and surveys, scientists of the Environmental Sciences Services Administration have compiled dramatic evidence to illustrate just how powerful the Alaska quake really was. In a detailed study, they report that it lowered mountains, raised sea beds, and made an impact halfway around the world...
Mountains on Kodiak Island and on the Kenai Peninsula near Anchorage subsided 7 ft. or more; the Kenai mountains moved laterally as much as 5 ft. In a 480-mile by 127-mile area off the Alaska coast, the ocean floor rose as much as 50 ft., the greatest quake uplift ever recorded. Near Valdez, Alaska, a slice of land 4,000 ft. by 600 ft. fell into...
...quake reached as high as 220 ft. above sea level near Valdez. Some 2,800 miles from the epicenter, at Hilo, Hawaii, the seismic sea wave caused the ocean to rise 121 ft. And in Antarctica, 8,445 miles away, the tsunami was recorded 221 hours after Alaska had shaken, having crossed the vast expanse of water at 430 m.p.h...
...rampaging career as fullback on Army's undefeated teams of 1944-46, three times making All-America, the Doc still ranks as West Point's greatest power runner. But he has also built himself a reputation as an equally skilled flyer on tours of duty in Alaska and England...
Senator Dirksen is appalled by the notion that if our line in Viet Nam fails, it will be pushed back to Alaska and Hawaii. Now a line from Alaska to Hawaii strikes me as an excellent line, a natural line, a defensible line, and even, if you wish, a moral line...