{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Alaska Earthquake 1964","description":"The ground in south-central Alaska always seemed steady. People built their lives and hopes on it, certain of its silence. But beneath the plywood storefronts and growing neighborhoods, the earth was quietly storing something unimaginable. The real danger was not what people saw – but what they didn’t.\r\n\r\nAnchorage in nineteen sixty-four was a city in motion. Military families, clerks, and fishermen moved between jobs and tides, building lives in a landscape of opportunity and risk. The state itself was new, just five years into statehood, its government and institutions still under construction. Yet to most, the land felt reliable. Homes, docks, warehouses, and schools stretched across glacial soils and bluffs. The city’s rapid growth masked the hidden hazards below: loose ground, unstable hillsides, and a network of lifelines that could be broken with a single shock. People were used to storms that cut off roads or isolated villages, but few imagined a disaster that could break every link at once.\r\n\r\nAurelius and Malik take on this case in full — 5 chapters, 32 minutes, one complete story.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thedisasterarchive.com/disaster/alaska-earthquake-1964","author_name":"The Archive Network"}