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Science 13 February 1959:
Vol. 129. no. 3346, pp. 394 - 395
DOI: 10.1126/science.129.3346.394
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Field Observations on Effects of Alaska Earthquake of 10 July 1958

DON TOCHER 1 and DON J. MILLER 2

1 Seismographic Station, University of California, Berkeley
2 U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California

The Alaska earthquake of 10 July 1958 was caused by movement on the Fairweather fault amounting to at least 21frac12 feet horizontally and 3frac12 feet vertically. Effects of strong shaking were evident over a large area in southeastern Alaska. In Lituya Bay an enormous wave, possibly resulting from a rockslide, reached a maximum height of more than 1700 feet.


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