Very interesting. Thank you for posting.
Quake Lake. Made Hebgen Lake/Reservoir upstream slosh over the dam too. 0bama should have gone there instead of Jellystone.
Our only disasters in Michigan are man made.
I was in Yellowstone National Park the night the earthquake occurred. This is also known as the Yellowstone earthquake. The epicenter was just across the border in Montana. It was a night of shake, rattle, and roll. But I was a kid and I thought it was great fun. There were smaller after-shocks.
We continued our sight-seeing trip the next day, but we also got to see some of the damage. What I remember is that some of the roads were blocked off because of landslides or big cracks in the earth. But the geysers kept on shooting out hot water. And the moose and bears were still roaming around.
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When I was in about first grade my family and I visited Yellowstone and my brother picked up a little paperback book called “The Night the Mountain Fell” about the ‘59 quake. It was one of the scariest things I’d ever read. A few years ago, my wife and I visited there (her first time) and I discovered that they still sell the exact same book, the only difference being the (higher) price sticker on it.
During the trip with my wife, we drove up to the quake area and saw a number of the quake remnants. Also stopped in at the visitors center that sits atop the part of the mountain that relocated.