Deadly Earthquake Rocks Alaska
After President Lyndon Johnson declared Alaska a major disaster area, a news report tallies the damage resulting from the strongest earthquake in American history, which jolted southern Alaska on March 27, 1964, and measured 8.4 on the Richter scale.
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