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...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...
...force, the U.S. will create serious dissension. Four Latin American nations--Chile, Mexico, Columbia and Uruguay--have soundly denounced the proposal. Five others -- Peru, Venczucla, Argentina, Ecuador and Costa Rica are -- known to be opposed. "This idea of collective action in the internal affairs of states," Gabriel Valdez of Chile told the ministers, "reflects a negative defensive attitude capable of destroying historically the great effort of organizing a new world in the Americas...
...charging as high as $62.37 a bag (132 lbs.), Brazil is asking more than the world market will bear. Aggressive African and Central American producers are busy underselling it, and Colombia has benefited from a successful U.S. ad campaign that features a winning Colombian coffee grower named Juan Valdez, thus helping to erode Brazil's longtime image as the world's coffee king...
...wiggly lines with which their instruments recorded the quake, and their work will go on for months or years. But already they know that the epicenter (the place on the earth's surface that is directly above the underground source of trouble) was located somewhere between Anchorage and Valdez in a wild, uninhabited region of glaciers and high, rugged mountains. Caltech's famed Seismologist Charles F. Richter thinks that the focus-the point where the shock originated-was at the comparatively shallow depth of 20 miles below the epicenter...
Beyond Anchorage, the earthquake stalked like an insatiable beast. In the coastal town of Valdez, a hole opened in the dock area and a man and his two little children disappeared into it. Moments later, the entire dock was gone. In Seward, fires fed by ruptured oil tanks raged through the night. Airports for miles around reported buckled runways and disrupted services; at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Anchorage, the control tower itself collapsed...