The magnitude 7.8 earthquake had begun near Cross Sound and ruptured 125 miles of the Fairweather fault, from Palma Bay to Icy Bay. Nine days later, descending after a blizzard suffocated one of the men in his tent, the survivors found the landscape of snow and ice deeply altered, and no sign of the lower camp where they had cached their snowshoes. Elias, another group of climbers felt the ground moving in waves as avalanches pounded down the slopes around them. Two hundred miles to the south, underwater landslides in Lynn Canal severed ACS's Juneau-Skagway cable in four places.ġ1,300 feet up Mount St. In Yakutat, the earthquake damaged bridges and docks and knocked a water tower to the ground. They felt the quake and watched as an 800-foot stretch of the island's beach disappeared into the bay along with three of their friends. Avalanches were coming down the mountains at the head of the bay.Ī hundred miles up the coast, in Yakutat Bay, a couple was heading home in a skiff after picking berries on Khantaak Island. Ulrich was awakened by the shaking and went up on deck. Howard Ulrich had brought his seven-year-old son along on the Edrie. The Sunmore and Badger were each crewed by married couples. By 9pm they were in the air, leaving behind three fishing boats that had come into the steep-walled bay for the night. The mountaineers’ pilot came early, on the evening of July 9, forcing a mad scramble to leave before nightfall. Miller believed he had identified four such waves over the last century, but he did not know their cause. Distinct trimlines-demarcations in the vegetation with young growth below and old growth above-showed where unusually large waves had torn through the bay and run up hillsides as high as 490 feet. In the 1950s, a sturdy cabin on the island served as a sometime base camp for Don Miller, a geologist who had taken an interest in Lituya Bay’s other great hazard. Cenotaph Island, a large wooded mound at the center of the bay, is named for the 21 members of the La Perouse expedition who drowned in 1798 after capsizing in the tidal bore at the bay’s shallow entrance. Lituya Bay offers the only sheltered anchorage for a long stretch of Southeast Alaska coast, but the bay itself is hardly safe. When hot weather made glacier travel untenable, they returned to Lituya Bay and radioed a request to be picked up on July 10. Over the next three weeks, the climbers made the second ascent of Mount Fairweather, a first ascent of an unnamed peak, and had come within 200 feet of the first ascent of Mount Lituya. Quake Lake is 24 miles from the West Entrance to Yellowstone National Park, along Highway 287 near Hebgen Lake in southwestern Montana, north of the Idaho border.A flying boat dropped Paddy Sherman’s mountaineering expedition at Lituya Bay on June 17, 1958. It killed 28 people and caused around $11 million in damage to the area. To this day you can see the roof tops of the houses that are still submerged under the lake and trees sticking out that have gone white and died from being submerged. Quake Lake is the result from when a 7.3 magnitude earthquake in August of 1959 shook the side of a mountain, plunging it into the Madison River Canyon gorge and backed it up. About 70 miles or so down the road, just outside of the west gates of Yellowstone, you will find an observation building overlooking what is now call Quake Lake. One of the first thing people told me to check out was Quake Lake. I used to live in a town in the southwest corner of Montana named Ennis. QUAKE LAKE - 7.3 magnitude earthquake killed 28 people on Aug. Ballen (and Ballen fans!) I have a story suggestion for you!
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