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Earthquake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Good Friday Earthquake (1964) In Alaska, it was the third biggest earthquake recorded, measuring 9.2M. |
 | | Caused a landslide that buried the town of Yungay, Peru; killed over 40,000 people. |
 | | Caused great and unexpected destruction of freeway bridges and flyways in the San Fernando Valley, leading to the first major seismic retrofits of these types of structures, but not at a sufficient pace to avoid the next California freeway collapse in 1989. |
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