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Inside the best-selling custom of Erik Larson's Isaac's Surprise, The Great Quake is a riveting narrative about the largest earthquake in North American recorded background - the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished metropolis of Valdez and swept away the island village of Chenega - and the geologist who hunted for hints to describe how and just why it took place. At 5:36 p.m. on March 27, 1964, a magnitude 9.2 earthquake - the second most powerful in world background - struck the young point out of Alaska. The violent shaking, accompanied by massive tsunamis, devastated the southern 50 percent of the point out and wiped out more than 130 people. A day later George Plafker, a geologist with the US Geological Survey, came to research. His fascinating methodical detective work in the weeks that followed helped verify the then-controversial theory of plate tectonics. In a powerful tale about the almost unimaginable brute force of characteristics, New York Times research journalist Henry Fountain combines background and research to bring the quake and its aftermath to life in vivid detail. With deep on-the-ground reporting from Alaska, often in the company of George Plafker, Fountain shows how the earthquake still left its make on the land and its people - and on research.
