My mother's husband, Richard Robinson, was killed in this quake. He was a dock worker in Valdez, AK. the dock was taken out by the tsunami and his body was never found.
I used to live in Alaska. I am too young to have been there, but I assure everyone. Kodiak Island (where I was) still has damage. I remember a boat being in the woods from it and some really large cliffs from where the ground shifted.
I had a friend who was in that quake and she told me people everywhere thought it was an earth wide event; the shaking lasted in some areas 4+min. with a mms of 12+.
@dadandevasing Right back at you from DC here! It was a bit unnerving, Though the 9.2 in 1964 must have been 1000x more terrifying...
I think there are probably a couple "added" clips, but the ones that are most striking, The harbor emptying into the chasm, the tsunami wall mixed with the burning fuel from the ruptured tanks, I'm sure are real. It's really sort of a miracle this much of the footage survived, considering the devastation and how close some of it is.
@DJChrisBradley I'm just surprised, 1, the guy on the ship in Valdez was able to hang in there like that during the whole thing, and 2. That cameraman on 4TH Ave. in Anchorage, especially with the cop tryin' to get to saftey, which explains why a blue car careened off the road in some pics after the quake hit, which I'm surprised didn't hit the cameraman besides all that hard shaking!
@shearn666 you are lame this was one of the big,st since japan...if u look at japans vidieo ...now what can you say thats what life does ...and you still dont think so because u live at home
@MrBrianlowdown Calm down mate, no need for name-calling. No doubt most of the footage is genuine & very dramatic, I just thought - & still do - that some "storytelling" has been added, like the clock on the floor. For the time it is exceptionally good film. I don't doubt that it happened, if that's what you're getting at...
tidal waves did not devastate the city of anchorage....Anchorage suffered major damage from the quake -damage that i can still see where there were landslides that changed the structure of downtown anchorage....the tsunamis hit the Seward area and other places along that coast..... sorry i had to correct the caption.
i think the one on chile on 1960 was the biggest one ever this one was a few numbers to reach that magnitude chile's 1960 earthquake was 9.5.and this one right here was 9.2 so pretty much within a period of 4 years on the same continent ,i think the whole america continent will sink like the lost city of atlantis ,man can fuck with mostly everything but what only can fuck man is mother nature ,so if you think you can buy most of it with money buy some ground on the moon !the end is near !
What is a subterranean cazom. I don't understand it totally, but from what it looked like it looked too unbeleivable to be true that the earth would just open like that and suck people in?
This is a pretty fair representation of my experience during the five minutes of the 'quake. Unable to stand, I crouched in a football stance and watched "waves" come down our road -- about 20" high and 50-75 feet apart. Quite an experience for a 15-year old Anchorage kid. The damage in Seward seen the next summer was simply awesome -- railroad track ripped from the ties and twisted like spaghetti into pretzel-like shapes.
@DonKofAK The segment at the 2:57-3:10 mark shows the walls shearing off the front of the JC Penney store at 5th & D St in downtown Anchorage; a fellow died under this rubble. The store was rebuilt, using very similar construction styles. I trust the panels were secured better the 2nd time. Can't not think about it when I drive by that building, even 40+ years later.
I was 8 years old. It WAS terrifying... for months people would not sleep on a second floor... the first night we sat in our station wagon not sure where we would go, but not wanting to go back in our house. We lived on Elmendorf, AFB... sorta typical government housing, big unit with about 8 apartments together each unit 2 stories high. about 1/2 mile away.. "govenrment hill" had lots of buildings that had slid down the side of the plateu that Elmendorf sat upon.
@RNmerritt You're right -- it did last 5 very long minutes after a slow, dizzyingly benign beginning. As I ran out the door of our house, it moved to the left and I ran right into the door jam, the tops of the birch trees whipped the ground in our driveway. This teenager suspected WWIII had begun and was about to end, but then it kept going and going and going...
wow... I was in Anchorage on Elmendorf AFB that day, we thought it was an Atomic bomb and went into the basement. What a terrible day it was. I still shake when a truck rumbles the ground.
man that had to have been a terrable day, I have friends and family that have been here for years and were hear when this happened they said it was the scariest day of there life!
I am old enough to remember this, I live in coastal North Carolina and we could not believe the news casts, horrible and tragic. I think that was the year we quit complaining about hurricanes.
Amazing how fast time flies eh? I was born Easter Sunday 1964. I probably got shaken out of my mom, lol. There was a Tsunami on our south west coast of BC caused by that quake. It caused major damage and I believe deaths on Vancouver Island. We are also subject to Tsunami here on our island, but rare.
If that original 8mm amateur film of the Valdez harbor still exists, I'd like to see a really professional, new transfer of it. All I've ever seen of it are copies like this one, and with the correct handling, you'd be able to see so much more detail.
Like other documentaries, this one uses real footage (with not much explanation) intermixed with re-created scenes, as well as material that has no actual connection to the '64 earthquake.
My mother's husband, Richard Robinson, was killed in this quake. He was a dock worker in Valdez, AK. the dock was taken out by the tsunami and his body was never found.
jakmormon 1 week ago
I used to live in Alaska. I am too young to have been there, but I assure everyone. Kodiak Island (where I was) still has damage. I remember a boat being in the woods from it and some really large cliffs from where the ground shifted.
Kodiakgirl49 2 months ago
I had a friend who was in that quake and she told me people everywhere thought it was an earth wide event; the shaking lasted in some areas 4+min. with a mms of 12+.
720069mf 2 months ago
fake and gay
carefreeforever 4 months ago
I had to come watch this, I just expierenced my first earthquake over in PA.
dadandevasing 6 months ago
@dadandevasing Right back at you from DC here! It was a bit unnerving, Though the 9.2 in 1964 must have been 1000x more terrifying...
I think there are probably a couple "added" clips, but the ones that are most striking, The harbor emptying into the chasm, the tsunami wall mixed with the burning fuel from the ruptured tanks, I'm sure are real. It's really sort of a miracle this much of the footage survived, considering the devastation and how close some of it is.
DJChrisBradley 6 months ago
@DJChrisBradley I'm just surprised, 1, the guy on the ship in Valdez was able to hang in there like that during the whole thing, and 2. That cameraman on 4TH Ave. in Anchorage, especially with the cop tryin' to get to saftey, which explains why a blue car careened off the road in some pics after the quake hit, which I'm surprised didn't hit the cameraman besides all that hard shaking!
likestallwomen 4 days ago
Actaully it might still be there, I'm not sure anymore....been awhile i have to check.
vonkiser 9 months ago
That forklift they unload off the ship was still on the beach up untill about 10 years ago.
vonkiser 9 months ago
@vonkiser Dang that thing lasted a long time! There's probably other areas where old forklifts like that are still around!
likestallwomen 8 months ago
ok ...maybe abit
MrBrianlowdown 9 months ago
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Theharlem21 10 months ago
@blisflix Blisflix, I'm not talking about the quality, child you are silly!!!!
whatamess1789 10 months ago
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whatamess1789 10 months ago
forgive my cynicism, but those big wave scenes look like they may have been included for dramatic effect...
shearn666 10 months ago
@shearn666 you are lame this was one of the big,st since japan...if u look at japans vidieo ...now what can you say thats what life does ...and you still dont think so because u live at home
MrBrianlowdown 9 months ago
@MrBrianlowdown Calm down mate, no need for name-calling. No doubt most of the footage is genuine & very dramatic, I just thought - & still do - that some "storytelling" has been added, like the clock on the floor. For the time it is exceptionally good film. I don't doubt that it happened, if that's what you're getting at...
shearn666 9 months ago
Worst fucking footage ever
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grundlebutterable 10 months ago
@grundlebutterable wow only a dickhead would say that about someone.
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I was there! This is a great video, I'd love to get a copy of it some how...even the full version. Thanks for posting it.
cjbutcher 11 months ago
I was there! This is a great video, I'd love to get a copy of it some how...even the full version.
cjbutcher 11 months ago
luckily the cameraman survives..
xBCxRICHx1993 11 months ago
tidal waves did not devastate the city of anchorage....Anchorage suffered major damage from the quake -damage that i can still see where there were landslides that changed the structure of downtown anchorage....the tsunamis hit the Seward area and other places along that coast..... sorry i had to correct the caption.
shelterskelter7 1 year ago
what's going on at 1:54 - 1:58?
panther0567 1 year ago
i think the one on chile on 1960 was the biggest one ever this one was a few numbers to reach that magnitude chile's 1960 earthquake was 9.5.and this one right here was 9.2 so pretty much within a period of 4 years on the same continent ,i think the whole america continent will sink like the lost city of atlantis ,man can fuck with mostly everything but what only can fuck man is mother nature ,so if you think you can buy most of it with money buy some ground on the moon !the end is near !
bengativo6 1 year ago
What is a subterranean cazom. I don't understand it totally, but from what it looked like it looked too unbeleivable to be true that the earth would just open like that and suck people in?
xhemexx 1 year ago
This is a pretty fair representation of my experience during the five minutes of the 'quake. Unable to stand, I crouched in a football stance and watched "waves" come down our road -- about 20" high and 50-75 feet apart. Quite an experience for a 15-year old Anchorage kid. The damage in Seward seen the next summer was simply awesome -- railroad track ripped from the ties and twisted like spaghetti into pretzel-like shapes.
DonKofAK 1 year ago
@DonKofAK The segment at the 2:57-3:10 mark shows the walls shearing off the front of the JC Penney store at 5th & D St in downtown Anchorage; a fellow died under this rubble. The store was rebuilt, using very similar construction styles. I trust the panels were secured better the 2nd time. Can't not think about it when I drive by that building, even 40+ years later.
DonKofAK 1 year ago
no! not the dogs! DX
christachick 1 year ago
dear god...it's unimaginable, even after you have watched it.
chimayai 1 year ago
poor doggies. :'(
Noodless121 1 year ago
fuck earthquake...
Leonkennedy07 1 year ago
It went on and on and on... I think I was over 5 min. It seemed like an eternity, I was there.
RNmerritt 2 years ago
@RNmerritt, you must have thought that the world was coming to an end. I can even begin to imagine how terrifying that quake had to have been.
DanteLacey21 1 year ago
I was 8 years old. It WAS terrifying... for months people would not sleep on a second floor... the first night we sat in our station wagon not sure where we would go, but not wanting to go back in our house. We lived on Elmendorf, AFB... sorta typical government housing, big unit with about 8 apartments together each unit 2 stories high. about 1/2 mile away.. "govenrment hill" had lots of buildings that had slid down the side of the plateu that Elmendorf sat upon.
RNmerritt 1 year ago
@RNmerritt You're right -- it did last 5 very long minutes after a slow, dizzyingly benign beginning. As I ran out the door of our house, it moved to the left and I ran right into the door jam, the tops of the birch trees whipped the ground in our driveway. This teenager suspected WWIII had begun and was about to end, but then it kept going and going and going...
DonKofAK 1 year ago
wow... I was in Anchorage on Elmendorf AFB that day, we thought it was an Atomic bomb and went into the basement. What a terrible day it was. I still shake when a truck rumbles the ground.
RNmerritt 2 years ago
man that had to have been a terrable day, I have friends and family that have been here for years and were hear when this happened they said it was the scariest day of there life!
Brutalnemisis 2 years ago
One weird thing is that it happend on a Good Friday... the churches were packed the next Sunday, Easter Sunday.
RNmerritt 2 years ago
I am old enough to remember this, I live in coastal North Carolina and we could not believe the news casts, horrible and tragic. I think that was the year we quit complaining about hurricanes.
shitzulovey 2 years ago
Is the wave footage real?
milesstep 2 years ago 2
this is REAL footage--its amazing how determined and brave the camera men were during this disaster.
thanks for posting, its actually very interesting and sad
pianoheart4561 2 years ago
ooooopppsss
violinmac 2 years ago
It happend 1 day before I was born. That was one nasty quake!
bj616 2 years ago
lol... I was there, my sister's birthday was on March 28th... she was 4 that next day, it was a Good Friday when the quake happened.
RNmerritt 2 years ago
Amazing how fast time flies eh? I was born Easter Sunday 1964. I probably got shaken out of my mom, lol. There was a Tsunami on our south west coast of BC caused by that quake. It caused major damage and I believe deaths on Vancouver Island. We are also subject to Tsunami here on our island, but rare.
bj616 2 years ago
like james bond... shaken not stirred. : )
RNmerritt 2 years ago
Ha ha, exactly!!
bj616 2 years ago
That's some serious ****. Wow. I didn't think I would ever get scared looking at an earthquake, but that one was freaky.
atwyatt 2 years ago
Wow, I had no idea there was actual footage from the quake and tsunami.
AmericanAirlinesRule 2 years ago
There was no tidal wave that hit Anchorage. Part of the land around the city fell into Knick arm, but there was no tidal wave.
ye11owsn0w 2 years ago
If that original 8mm amateur film of the Valdez harbor still exists, I'd like to see a really professional, new transfer of it. All I've ever seen of it are copies like this one, and with the correct handling, you'd be able to see so much more detail.
Like other documentaries, this one uses real footage (with not much explanation) intermixed with re-created scenes, as well as material that has no actual connection to the '64 earthquake.
hebneh 2 years ago
my physics teacher showed us this in class...
incredible
shithappens17 3 years ago 3
The footage of the water receding in the harbour is amazing.
victor1963 3 years ago 6
That is better footage than what you get these days.
Richad09 3 years ago 10
@Richad09 I don't know if better but definitly bigger...
trpasleek 11 months ago
not a lot of people know about this one. i'm glad someone posted it. Thanks!
gimmick5 3 years ago 12