Note undamaged buildings nearby. The intense shaking and subsequent tsunamis killed 131 people .

Landslide and slumping effects in the Turnagain Heights area, Anchorage, Alaska, caused by the March 28, 1964, earthquake.

At 5:36 pm on March 27, 1964, the largest earthquake ever recorded in North America, and the second largest in history, rattled coastal Alaska for close to 4 minutes. 1964 Alaska Earthquake Damage Photos. The geologic discoveries from the 1964 Alaska earthquake transformed how we ... a huge tide of fire washing ashore," survivor Gene Kirkpatrick told National Geographic magazine in 1964. Click to view a larger image.

Five-story J.C. Penney Building, 5th Avenue and Downing Street, Anchorage, Alaska, partly collapsed by the March 28, 1964 earthquake. The 1964 earthquake that struck Alaska is still remembered as one of the most devastating in history.

Map of southern Alaska showing the epicenter of the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake (red star). Violent Pacific: Alaskan Earthquake. Video 3.2. It struck on Good Friday, branding it the Good Friday Earthquake .

In 1964, a magnitude 9.2 earthquake that shook the region became the largest yet recorded in the United States. Across south-central Alaska, ground fissures, collapsing structures, and tsunamis resulting from the earthquake caused about 131 deaths..

The 1964 Alaskan earthquake, also known as the Great Alaskan earthquake and Good Friday earthquake, occurred at 5:36 PM AKST on Good Friday, March 27.

Cities sank into the ground and towns were wiped into the sea after the Great Alaskan Earthquake of 1964. In 50 years, no earthquake since has matched the power of the March 27, 1964, Great Alaska earthquake.

Lasting four minutes and thirty-eight seconds, the magnitude 9.2 megathrust earthquake remains the … On March 27, 1964 at 5:36pm local time (March 28 at 3:36 UTC) a great earthquake of magnitude 9.2 occurred in the Prince William Sound region of Alaska.