Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Audiobook9 hours
The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
Written by Henry Fountain
Narrated by Robert Fass
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this audiobook
In the bestselling tradition of Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm, The Great Quake is a riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history -- the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swept away the island village of Chenega -- and the geologist who hunted for clues to explain how and why it took place.
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 and killed more than 130 people. A day later, George Plafker, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, arrived to investigate. His fascinating scientific detective work in the months that followed helped confirm the then-controversial theory of plate tectonics.
In a compelling tale about the almost unimaginable brute force of nature, New York Times science journalist Henry Fountain combines history and science to bring the quake and its aftermath to life in vivid detail. With deep, on-the-ground reporting from Alaska, often in the company of George Plafker, Fountain shows how the earthquake left its mark on the land and its people -- and on science.
Unavailable
Related to The Great Quake
Related audiobooks
In Suspect Terrain Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Detecting Disasters: Earthquakes, Hurricanes, Tornadoes and more Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The NASA Conspiracies: The Truth Behind the Moon Landings, Censored Photos , and The Face on Mars Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hispanic Star: Ellen Ochoa Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Icy Clutches Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Assembling California Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Apollo in the Age of Aquarius Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Day We Found the Universe Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5North Pole, South Pole: The Epic Quest to Solve the Great Mystery of Earth's Magnetism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Conquering The Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cosmos: Possible Worlds Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Crossing the Craton Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mighty Bad Land: A Perilous Expedition to Antarctica Reveals Clues to an Eighth Continent Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Quiet World: Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1910-1960 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Apollo 11: An AP Special Anniversary Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSilent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5T. Rex and the Crater of Doom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Geophysics: A Very Short Introduction Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/51957: The Year That Launched the American Future Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Cover-Up at Roswell: Exposing the 70-Year Conspiracy to Suppress the Truth Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
United States History For You
Killing the Guys Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln: A Nutty Story About Edwin Booth and Boston Corbett Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Land of Delusion: Out on the edge with the crackpots and conspiracy-mongers remaking our shared reality Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/51776 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of Charlie Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Untold History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here—and Out There Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dragonfire: Four Days That (Almost) Changed America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lies My Teacher Told Me: 2nd Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Letter from Birmingham Jail Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The Great Quake
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
2 ratings1 review
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Science and Disaster mixed to perfection! Superbly researched and recounted.