Bad Friday
Author: Lew Freedman
Publisher: Epicenter Press (WA)
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781935347248
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn [the book], survivors share their personal stories of the 1964 Good Friday earthquake"--
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This Is Chance!
Author: Jon Mooallem
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2021-03-16
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0525509925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe thrilling, cinematic story of a community shattered by disaster—and the extraordinary woman who helped pull it back together “A powerful, heart-wrenching book, as much art as it is journalism.”—The Wall Street Journal “A beautifully wrought and profoundly joyful story of compassion and perseverance.”—BuzzFeed (Best Books of the Year) In the spring of 1964, Anchorage, Alaska, was a modern-day frontier town yearning to be a metropolis—the largest, proudest city in a state that was still brand-new. But just before sundown on Good Friday, the community was jolted by the most powerful earthquake in American history, a catastrophic 9.2 on the Richter Scale. For four and a half minutes, the ground lurched and rolled. Streets cracked open and swallowed buildings whole. And once the shaking stopped, night fell and Anchorage went dark. The city was in disarray and sealed off from the outside world. Slowly, people switched on their transistor radios and heard a familiar woman’s voice explaining what had just happened and what to do next. Genie Chance was a part-time radio reporter and working mother who would play an unlikely role in the wake of the disaster, helping to put her fractured community back together. Her tireless broadcasts over the next three days would transform her into a legendary figure in Alaska and bring her fame worldwide—but only briefly. That Easter weekend in Anchorage, Genie and a cast of endearingly eccentric characters—from a mountaineering psychologist to the local community theater group staging Our Town—were thrown into a jumbled world they could not recognize. Together, they would make a home in it again. Drawing on thousands of pages of unpublished documents, interviews with survivors, and original broadcast recordings, This Is Chance! is the hopeful, gorgeously told story of a single catastrophic weekend and proof of our collective strength in a turbulent world. There are moments when reality instantly changes—when the life we assume is stable gets upended by pure chance. This Is Chance! is an electrifying and lavishly empathetic portrayal of one community rising above the randomness, a real-life fable of human connection withstanding chaos.
The Great Quake
Author: Henry Fountain
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1101904062
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn March 27, 1964, at 5-36 p.m., the biggest earthquake ever recorded in North America--and the second biggest ever in the world, measuring 9.2 on the Richter scale--struck Alaska, devastating coastal towns and villages and killing more than 130 people in what was then a relatively sparsely populated region. In a riveting tale about the almost unimaginable brute force of nature, New York Times science journalist Henry Fountain, in his first trade book, re-creates the lives of the villagers and townspeople living in Chenega, Anchorage, and Valdez; describes the sheer beauty of the geology of the region, with its towering peaks and 20-mile-long glaciers; and reveals the impact of the quake on the towns, the buildings, and the lives of the inhabitants. George Plafker, a geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey with years of experience scouring the Alaskan wilderness, is asked to investigate the Prince William Sound region in the aftermath of the quake, to better understand its origins. His work confirmed the then controversial theory of plate tectonics that explained how and why such deadly quakes occur, and how we can plan for the next one.
The Orphan Tsunami of 1700
Author: Brian F. Atwater
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2016-04-18
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 0295998512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA puzzling tsunami entered Japanese history in January 1700. Samurai, merchants, and villagers wrote of minor flooding and damage. Some noted having felt no earthquake; they wondered what had set off the waves but had no way of knowing that the tsunami was spawned during an earthquake along the coast of northwestern North America. This orphan tsunami would not be linked to its parent earthquake until the mid-twentieth century, through an extraordinary series of discoveries in both North America and Japan. The Orphan Tsunami of 1700, now in its second edition, tells this scientific detective story through its North American and Japanese clues. The story underpins many of today�s precautions against earthquake and tsunami hazards in the Cascadia region of northwestern North America. The Japanese tsunami of March 2011 called attention to these hazards as a mirror image of the transpacific waves of January 1700. Hear Brian Atwater on NPR with Renee Montagne http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4629401
The Alaskan Earthquake
Author: United States. Office of Civil Defense
Publisher:
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTsunami Warning and Preparedness
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2011-03-01
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0309209897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany coastal areas of the United States are at risk for tsunamis. After the catastrophic 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean, legislation was passed to expand U.S. tsunami warning capabilities. Since then, the nation has made progress in several related areas on both the federal and state levels. At the federal level, NOAA has improved the ability to detect and forecast tsunamis by expanding the sensor network. Other federal and state activities to increase tsunami safety include: improvements to tsunami hazard and evacuation maps for many coastal communities; vulnerability assessments of some coastal populations in several states; and new efforts to increase public awareness of the hazard and how to respond. Tsunami Warning and Preparedness explores the advances made in tsunami detection and preparedness, and identifies the challenges that still remain. The book describes areas of research and development that would improve tsunami education, preparation, and detection, especially with tsunamis that arrive less than an hour after the triggering event. It asserts that seamless coordination between the two Tsunami Warning Centers and clear communications to local officials and the public could create a timely and effective response to coastal communities facing a pending tsuanami. According to Tsunami Warning and Preparedness, minimizing future losses to the nation from tsunamis requires persistent progress across the broad spectrum of efforts including: risk assessment, public education, government coordination, detection and forecasting, and warning-center operations. The book also suggests designing effective interagency exercises, using professional emergency-management standards to prepare communities, and prioritizing funding based on tsunami risk.
The Tsunami of the Alaskan Earthquake, 1964
Author: Basil W. Wilson
Publisher:
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 480
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Tsunami of the Alaskan Earthquake, 1964
Author: Basil Wrigley Wilson
Publisher:
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 510
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The purpose of this study is to evaluate the tsunami of Good Friday196k. The evaluation is directed to an engineering view of the causes,effects, and future protective measures. A secondary purpose is to evaluate the oceanographic and geophysical nature of tsunami generation.Based on the literature of earlier investigators and on field investigation by the authors, the study gives a picture of what occurred.Analyses by the authors also suggest an explanation of how it occurred.Started nearly two years after the event, the study had the advantage of collecting data from a great number of sources - sources that would not have been available much closer to the event. A disadvantage was that vital engineering evidence concerning structural damage was lost during cleanup and reconstruction.Nature of the earth dislocation is described and related to the generation, propagation, and dispersion of the main tsunami waves. Itis inferred that this earthquake (as perhaps many great earthquakes) was triggered by the lunisolar forces on the earth's crust at syzygy and by the moment-arm forces of local spring tide differentials. The complex tectonic movements may, for simplification, be imagined as a gigantic wave-paddle that pushed an initial wave 10 to 20 meters high along a front of 650 kilometers. Propagation of this enormous wave is followed-to Canada, Washington, Oregon, and California, to Hawaii, Russia, Japan,and New Zealand, even to Tierra del Fuego and Antarctica.Detailed studies of the main tsunami and local seismic sea waves are given for damaged areas in Alaska, especially those in Prince William Sound. Similar studies are presented for a'"as in Canada, Washington,Oregon and California. In addition to the wave analysis for each place,an engineering evaluation is presented for severely damaged areas.Included are marigrams of component waves and oscillations for manyplaces reached by the tsunami, based on a subjective analysis of tide gage records. These analyses relate the tsunami waves to local bay andshelf oscill ations, and to the local tides"--Page iii.
The Raging Sea
Author: Dennis M. Powers
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
Published: 2004-04
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780786017515
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUses historical research and personal accounts of survivors to tell the story of the tsunamis that hit Crescent City, California on Good Friday, 1964, which damaged hundreds of homes and businesses and killed eleven people. Includes some information about Alaska.
Tsunami!
Author: Walter C. Dudley
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1998-11-01
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 0824865308
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn April 1, 1946, shortly after sunrise, the town of Hilo on the island of Hawai'i was devastated by a series of giant waves. Traveling 2,300 miles from the Aleutian Islands in less than five hours, the waves struck without warning and claimed 159 lives. Fourteen years later, on May 22, 1960, a massive earthquake occurred off of the coast of Chile. The earthquake generated giant waves that sped across the Pacific at 442 miles per hour, reaching Hilo in just fifteen hours. The first wave to hit the town was a modest four feet higher than normal, the second nine feet. Before the third wave could arrive, a tidal phenomenon known as a bore smashed into the Hilo bayfront, with thirty-five foot waves that wrenched buildings off their foundations. That day several city blocks were swept clean of all structures and 61 people died. The first edition of Tsunami!, published in 1988, provided readers with a complete examination of the tsunami phenomenon in Hawai'i. This second edition adds many eyewitness accounts of the tsunamis of 1946 and 1960 and expands its coverage to include major tsunamis in the Mediterranean and off the coasts of Japan, Chile, Indonesia, Fiji, Alaska, California, Newfoundland, and the Caribbean, as well as the 1998 devastation in Papua New Guinea. Dramatic photographs and accounts of experiencing a tsunami firsthand are placed within the framework of the how and why of tsunamis, our scientific understanding of these phenomena, and the current status of the Tsunami Warning System, which is widely used to forecast and measure tsunamis and prepare coastal areas for potentially deadly tsunami strikes.
