Earthquake near the coast of Alaska, which was recorded on Thursday July 29, was the strongest in North America since 1964. It is reported by RIA Novosti.
The wobbies of the earth’s surface became the most powerful on the mainland over the past 57 years. The geological service of the United States clarified that the magnitude of underground jokes reached 8.2. Next followed by many aftershocks.
The most powerful earthquake in North America, also known as the great Alaskan earthquake, occurred in Good Friday in 1964. It was recorded in the largest city of Alaska, located in the south of the central part of the state on the shore of the Cook Bay. The earthquake focus was located at a depth of more than 20 kilometers and was located on the border of the dive of the Pacific Plate under North American. The push of a magnitude 9.2 was the second for the power of ever registered in world history. The earthquake caused avalanche and collaborators in the mountains, landslides, which led to the wealth of iron and highways, port structures, bridges and much more. General economic damage was half a billion US dollars. Due to the earthquake, 9 people died, and the tsunami, which followed the underground jogs and whose waves managed to achieve even Antarctic, took the lives of 131 citizens.