Reviewed on Sep 2025, book by Henry Fountain
What an engrossing narrative about the 1964 megathrust earthquake in Alaska. This is a vivid account of what happened in Alaska in March of 1964 and how through deductive analysis the geologist, George Plafker, pieced together the evidence to propose the cause of the earthquake. Not only I learned a lot about the geology of Alaska, which I was fascinated with since I had visited in 2019 summer, but also got a deeper understanding of how we identify how earthquakes work. Living in the Pacific Northwest, this feels even more personal as this area is ripe for another mega earthquake due to the pacific subduction zone.