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The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet

Henry Fountain

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Sep 30, 2017 David Schwan rated it really liked it

This book has lots of first hand stories about the 1964 Alaskan earthquake. The best part of the book is the story of the George Plafker a field geologist with the USGS who is assigned to be part of a survey crew immediately after the earthquake. His background as a field geologist (not a theorist) helped him understand what happened and his evidence and ideas led to our current understanding of plate tectonics.

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