The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet by Fountain, Henry
The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet by Fountain, Henry

The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet

New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North...
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Author: Henry Fountain
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The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet by Fountain, Henry

The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet

$42.28
The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet by Fountain, Henry

The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet

$42.28
Author: Henry Fountain
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history--the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swept away the island village of Chenega--and the geologist who hunted for clues to explain how and why it took place.

At 5:36 p.m. on March 27, 1964, a magnitude 9.2. earthquake--the second most powerful in world history--struck the young state of Alaska. The violent shaking, followed by massive tsunamis, devastated the southern half of the state and killed more than 130 people. A day later, George Plafker, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, arrived to investigate. His fascinating scientific detective work in the months that followed helped confirm the then-controversial theory of plate tectonics.

In a compelling tale about the almost unimaginable brute force of nature, New York Times science journalist Henry Fountain combines history and science to bring the quake and its aftermath to life in vivid detail. With deep, on-the-ground reporting from Alaska, often in the company of George Plafker, Fountain shows how the earthquake left its mark on the land and its people--and on science.




Author: Henry Fountain
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: 08/07/2018
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781101904084

About the Author
HENRY FOUNTAIN has been a reporter and editor at the New York Times for two decades, writing about science for most of that time. From 1999 to 2009 he wrote Observatory, a weekly column in the Science Times section. He was an editor on the national news desk and the Sunday Review and was one of the first editors of Circuits, the Times' pioneering technology section. Prior to coming to the Times, Fountain worked at the International Herald Tribune in Paris, New York Newsday, and the Bridgeport Post in Connecticut. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he majored in architecture. He and his family live just outside of New York City. Learn more at henry-fountain.com.
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