Nine were killed by the earthquake itself but the tsunami it caused resulted in other deaths as far away as California.
The number of people that died was: 131,115!!!!!!!!!!
The Anchorage Earthquake:The number of deaths from the earthquake and the tsunami that it created totalled at least 131 people including 16 as far away as Oregon and California. Death as a direct result of the Good Friday earthquake however was only nine with all other were blamed on the tsunami.
Alaska's 1964 Good Friday Earthquake measured 9.2 on the seismograph which is the third largest earthquake in recorded history and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake only recorded a magnitude of 7.9 on the Richter Scale. That means that the Alaska quake was more then 10 times as bad as the San Francisco quake which killed over 3,000 people.
The 1964 Alaska Earthquake. It measured between 9.2 and 9.4 on the Richter Scale, making it the 2nd largest earthquake ever recorded. 143 people were killed.
230,000 died as a result of the earthquake.
The Tutti Earthquake
Over 250,000 people were injured but not killed in the Shaanxi earthquake.
Nine were killed by the earthquake and and at least another 120 by the Tsunami that it created.
Strongest in the United StatesThe Good Friday Earthquake which struck Alaska, USA on March 27, 1964 measured 9.2-magnitude on the Richter scale. Strongest in the 48 contiguous United StatesThe New Madrid Earthquake on February 7, 1812 is estimated to have measured 8.0 magnitude. Answer #2Actually the 1812 New Madrid Earthquake was measured 7.7 according to the USGS. Therefore, the strongest earthquake in the continental US was magnitude 7.9 on Jan 9, 1857 in Fort Tejon, California.
The earthquake effectively split the country in half.There was an earthquake today.An earthquake that occurs close to water can result in a very destructive tsunami.
34 people were killed in all.
No. He was not.