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Locally, the seismograph at McQuaid Jesuit High School picked up on the quake as the earthquake “waves” passed through the Rochester region just 10 minutes after the initial strike.
-- The seismograph, in operation in the meteorological station here, indicated severe shocks of earthquake yesterday. On the occasion of the recent disturbances at Skaguay the instrument indicated it.
McQuaid Jesuit is a fair distance away from Alaska, but the school was still able to take note of that state’s sizeable earthquake Wednesday night. The 8. 2 magnitude earthquake hit just off ...
More earthquakes are registered in Alaska each year than in any other state.
The magnitude of the earthquake was 9.2, the second largest quake ever recorded by a seismograph. The tremors shook the Anchorage community literally to its core, destroying man made works and ...
How the Great Alaska Earthquake Shook Up Science Sixty years ago, the largest earthquake in U.S. history shocked geologists. It’s still driving scientific discoveries today ...
Seismograph record of the station located on Adak, Alaska. Image credit: USGS The earthquake hit at 12:53 pm Alaska daylight time, with several magnitude 4, 5, and 6 aftershocks throughout the ...
Deep in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, and part of the tourist-filled Tuckaleechee Caverns, the AS107 seismograph captures a goldmine of geological data.
W hen the Great Alaska Earthquake convulsed the south-central region of that vast state on March 27, 1964, the energy released by the upheaval — the largest quake in recorded North American ...
Rochester, N.Y. - The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck near Anchorage, Alaska Friday was picked up on the seismograph at McQuaid Jesuit High School. The school said the quake registered within ...
Alaska is especially active, with 11 percent of the world’s earthquakes every year, because it’s located where two great plates converge, with the Pacific Plate slowly being pushed under the ...
The 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake and Alaska's Rat Islands Earthquake the following year were among the 10 worst worldwide since 1900, the USGS noted in 2019.