The Great Quake (2017)

Format: Trade Paperback

ISBN: 9781101904084

Condition: Good

The cover is wrinkled at the corners and along the spine. The book has a slight amount of shelf wear.

Book Description:

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, demolished the city of Valdez, swept away the island village of Chenega and killed more than 130 people. George Plafker, a geologist with the US Geological Survey, was ordered to Alaska to investigate. His fascinating scientific detective work in the months that followed helped confirm the then controversial theory of plate tectonics. - from the back cover