EARTHQUAKES
BY: ANDREA
What are EARTHQUAKES caused by ??
What does an earthquake do??
Here is some more picures of eartquakes!!!!
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The Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964
It all happened on March 27, 1964 at 5:36 p.m
As a result of the 1964 quake, the Latouche Island area moved about 18 meters to the southeast. Also, the patterns of uplift and subsidence which had been slowly developing prior to the earthquake were suddenly reversed, with areas around Montague Island being uplifted 4-9 meters and areas around Portage down-dropped as much as 3 meters. The hinge line (line of no vertical change separating the uplift and subsidence zones) extended from near the epicenter in Prince William Sound to the SE coast of Kodiak Island. This vertical deformation affected and area of approximately 250,000 km2 (100,000 miles2). The end results was the movement of the Pacific plate under the North American plate by about 9 meters on average.
The number of deaths from the earthquake totalled 131,115 in Alaska, and 16 in Oregon and California