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Quake Lake: The Night a Montana Mountain Came Down

On a summer night in 1959, families were asleep in a campground beside a river in Montana when the mountain above them came down. At twenty minutes to midnight, a powerful earthquake struck near Yellowstone. In an instant, the whole face of the mountain broke loose.

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