Alaska Earthquake of 1964

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 2 July 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

When a 9.2 quake shoook Alaska in 1964 it was the 2nd largest earthquake ever recorded. This is that story.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.5	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio.
0:15.2	Hey, and welcome to the podcast.
0:16.9	I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too,
0:19.9	and this is Stuff You Should know about earthquakes in Alaska in 1964
0:24.6	I'm gonna talk like this the rest of the podcast what do you think I think that 60% of the people just stop listening
0:34.6	well they are going to be sorry because this is going to be an interesting episode.
0:40.7	Yeah, this is, you know, I had no idea how earthquake-prone Alaska is, was and is, until doing this kind of research.
0:50.9	Oh, I was raised on that knowledge.
0:52.7	My family talked about it a lot.
0:55.3	No comment.
0:56.6	In Toledo.
0:58.3	Hey, Chuck, I have a question. Will you ask me the first time I was ever in an earthquake or ever felt an earthquake?
1:05.3	When's the first time you ever felt an earthquake?
1:08.4	Yesterday.
1:09.8	Chuck, will you ask me a follow-up question?
1:12.9	Would you ask what I was reading while I experienced that first earthquake?
1:17.2	Well, where were you, and what were you reading?
1:19.8	I was reading this article about Alaska Earth, the Alaska earthquake of 1964, and I was at home.
1:27.4	Wow.
1:27.9	I didn't know that you guys felt a tremor.
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