On a quiet evening in nineteen sixty-four, the ground in Alaska shook so violently that, thousands of miles away, water sloshed out of lakes in Texas and Louisiana. It was Good Friday, the twenty-seventh of March. At twenty-seven minutes past five, the earth beneath Alaska tore loose in the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in North America.
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