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Anchorage, Alaska: Earthquake Park Monument

In Earthquake Park along the bike trail, there's a monument to the 9.2 magnitude shaker that struck on March 27, 1964.

Address:
Aircraft Dr., Anchorage, AK
Directions:
Earthquake Park. Park at pulloff on Aircraft Dr. just west of West Northern Lights. The monument is along the trail looking out over the water.
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Earthquake monument made of large granite blocks of increasing sizes.

Earthquake Park Monument

This monument remembers the big one that hit on Good Friday in Alaska.

[Adam Scott Lankford, 05/10/2007]

The Great Alaska Earthquake, a Richter Scale magnitude 9.2, was March 27, 1964, and people still haven't forgotten it.


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