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On March 27, 1964, at 5:36 PM, a magnitude 9.2 earthquake struck south-central Alaska, the largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States (Figure 1). The Great Alaska earthquake (also known as the Good Friday earthquake) occurred at a critical moment in the history of Earth science and led to the acceptance of the theory of plate tectonics (Cox, 1973; Brocher et al., 2014). All large subduction zones
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Evan E. Thomas, Peter J. Haussler, Rebecca Anderson, Robert G. McGimsey
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