And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I e seen those hone movies. As I understand it, the plate on which the bay sits, rose 50' (?) in the blink on an eye. All the water spilled off of it. Then, just as suddenly, that plate dropped just as suddenly and the water came back in. That's all on top of the magnitude 9.2 shake.
On a different note, I'm looking at the 1960 impala/biscayne. That car is 4 years old in the photo. It looks like it's had a rough life. No wheel covers, appears to have dull paint, now this!
I remember reading several stories about this quake in Reader's Digest that year. The eye witness accounts were mind numbing. One of the tales was about a fisherman whose boat road the wave of the Tsunami as it came ashore in some bay whose name escapes me after 60 years. He and the boat survived, but the boat was far inland from the bay.
Lituya Bay in 1958? (I live in Alaska, so know about it)https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/147557/lituya-bays-apocalyptic-wave&ved=2ahUKEwiW5NWLvIiHAxX_MTQIHa37CqYQFnoECFIQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1wVFQ7SUSepe6PjM4hSwoM
I've lived in a very active earthquake zone before (for years) and it's hard to describe how disorienting a quake is. We were very close to a couple of active plate boundaries. We would feel them the most at night (when it's quiet), some a sharp short rumble, some just like a crack of thunder, some little gentle shocks. Sometimes just a gentle sway, and done. It all depended on the depth and distance to the epicenter, and of course the magnitude and severity. We became quite blasé about it, even though there were a few >7.5,
In a large, steel frame, multi-story, open-plan office space, you can see the 8 corner points of the floor. And when a quake hits, all 8 corner points are moving relative to each other, noticeably - like someone holding an open geometrical box made of wire, and flexing it. You can see it, but your mind doesn't believe it - it's conditioned to treat those corners as fixed reference points.
Once I was coming into dock on harbor cruise, an office event with about 30 people. An earthquake hit - you could see the tops of the light poles along the dock dancing around in circles, and then the entire ocean surface transformed into an excited chop, waves standing up and laying down, very steep sided, but not moving. In an instant, all the way across the harbor, the water came alive. We didn't feel anything on the boat, because we were floating, of course.
The disconnect between the visual input, the balance input (if you're on land) and the sound input just completely disorients you, even though you know almost instantaneously that an earthquake is happening. You senses work perfectly, but your comprehension just locks up.
I was in Hawaii, on Oahu and was I'm to remember if that tsunami warning was the one where my dad & I were snorkeling in Hanauma Bay when the warning went out. (It was just the warning, no tsunami).
I was there, in the Turnagain suburb where Earthquake Park is today. Our house was unliveable afterward. One fun fact, the earthquake lasted for 4 1/2 minutes. It wasn't a "shake" it was an eternal rumble of chaos. My mom and I were trapped in our basement until neighbors broke down the door.
We were neighbors, lived on Illiamna 2 blocks off the coastal bluffs. After the quake we had an ocean view because the homes across the street tumbled to the beach.
That was a bruiser, never underestimate Mother Nature’s ability to scramble your day…
ReplyDeleteSomewhere there is film footage of a whole bay draining of water in realtime.
ReplyDeleteI e seen those hone movies. As I understand it, the plate on which the bay sits, rose 50' (?) in the blink on an eye. All the water spilled off of it. Then, just as suddenly, that plate dropped just as suddenly and the water came back in. That's all on top of the magnitude 9.2 shake.
ReplyDeleteOn a different note, I'm looking at the 1960 impala/biscayne. That car is 4 years old in the photo. It looks like it's had a rough life. No wheel covers, appears to have dull paint, now this!
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DeleteAlaska. It’s not kind to vehicles.
DeleteI remember reading several stories about this quake in Reader's Digest that year. The eye witness accounts were mind numbing. One of the tales was about a fisherman whose boat road the wave of the Tsunami as it came ashore in some bay whose name escapes me after 60 years. He and the boat survived, but the boat was far inland from the bay.
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Lituya Bay in 1958? (I live in Alaska, so know about it)https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/147557/lituya-bays-apocalyptic-wave&ved=2ahUKEwiW5NWLvIiHAxX_MTQIHa37CqYQFnoECFIQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1wVFQ7SUSepe6PjM4hSwoM
DeleteI've lived in a very active earthquake zone before (for years) and it's hard to describe how disorienting a quake is. We were very close to a couple of active plate boundaries. We would feel them the most at night (when it's quiet), some a sharp short rumble, some just like a crack of thunder, some little gentle shocks. Sometimes just a gentle sway, and done. It all depended on the depth and distance to the epicenter, and of course the magnitude and severity. We became quite blasé about it, even though there were a few >7.5,
ReplyDeleteIn a large, steel frame, multi-story, open-plan office space, you can see the 8 corner points of the floor. And when a quake hits, all 8 corner points are moving relative to each other, noticeably - like someone holding an open geometrical box made of wire, and flexing it. You can see it, but your mind doesn't believe it - it's conditioned to treat those corners as fixed reference points.
Once I was coming into dock on harbor cruise, an office event with about 30 people. An earthquake hit - you could see the tops of the light poles along the dock dancing around in circles, and then the entire ocean surface transformed into an excited chop, waves standing up and laying down, very steep sided, but not moving. In an instant, all the way across the harbor, the water came alive. We didn't feel anything on the boat, because we were floating, of course.
The disconnect between the visual input, the balance input (if you're on land) and the sound input just completely disorients you, even though you know almost instantaneously that an earthquake is happening. You senses work perfectly, but your comprehension just locks up.
Was there. Not in Anchorage but in a nearby subdivision where we lost a half dozen residents.
ReplyDeleteMy father was almost sent TDY to Elmendorf after that. A school classmate's father was sent. Gone 3 months. He ended up going PCS to Elmendorf.
ReplyDeleteI was in Hawaii, on Oahu and was I'm to remember if that tsunami warning was the one where my dad & I were snorkeling in Hanauma Bay when the warning went out. (It was just the warning, no tsunami).
ReplyDeleteI was up there back in the 90's sometime and there were still signs of that earthquake around.
ReplyDeleteI was there, in the Turnagain suburb where Earthquake Park is today. Our house was unliveable afterward. One fun fact, the earthquake lasted for 4 1/2 minutes. It wasn't a "shake" it was an eternal rumble of chaos. My mom and I were trapped in our basement until neighbors broke down the door.
ReplyDeleteWe were neighbors, lived on Illiamna 2 blocks off the coastal bluffs. After the quake we had an ocean view because the homes across the street tumbled to the beach.
Deletewe had that fordor.
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