{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Alaska Earthquake 1964 - Part 2: The Day the Warnings Went Unheard","description":"A tremor rattles a shelf. A crack appears in a wall. In Alaska, small disturbances are nothing new. But on this March afternoon, the ground’s whispers are not just background noise. They are hints of a disaster about to break free.\r\n\r\nOn March twenty-seventh, nineteen sixty-four, the earliest signs were easy to miss or explain away. In Prince William Sound, the ground twitched. Some felt a brief shake. Others heard a noise or saw plaster shift. In a region this vast, minor tremors were common. But these were not ordinary after all. Alaska’s early warning system was primitive. Few seismographs, scattered far apart, quietly traced the earth’s movements. But there was no network to connect these traces into a clear alarm. Most people went about their day, unaware that the Pacific Plate was pushing relentlessly beneath the North American Plate. The scientific framework to read these signals in real time simply didn’t exist.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thedisasterarchive.com/disaster/alaska-earthquake-1964","author_name":"The Archive Network"}