Geologists in the early 20th century described a massive 1899 earthquake that shattered glaciers, lifted areas of shoreline 47 feet out of the water, and caused the deaths of millions of organisms.
Updated: 15 minutes agoA photo taken in summer of 1905 shows shoreline uplifted during a massive 1899 earthquake near Yakutat.
They saw so much evidence of a giant earthquake that they interviewed a few prospectors in Yakutat and included their stories in a 1912 government paper, “The Earthquakes at Yakutat Bay, Alaska, in September, 1899.” “The ground cutting some of the queerest capers imaginable. In addition to the circular motion of the preceding heavy shock, it was waving up and down like the swells of the sea, only with considerably more energy.”
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