Alaska Earthquake, March 27, 1964
The Good Friday Earthquake (also called the Great Alaska Earthquake) of Friday, March 27, 1964 (Good Friday, a Christian holy day), 5:36 P.M. AST (03:36 3/28 UTC) was the most powerful earthquake in U.S. and North American history, and the third most powerful ever measured by seismograph. The epicenter was about 10km east of the mouth of College Fjord, approximately 90 km west of Valdez and 120 km east of Anchorage.
