> In April 1964, Alaska was struck by a magnitude 9.2 megathrust earthquake that devastated much of Anchorage. This is a sidebar that I think is historically u

> In April 1964, Alaska was struck by a magnitude 9.2 megathrust earthquake that devastated much of Anchorage. This is a sidebar that I think is historically underappreciated. Take a look at this incredible graphic, which goes up to 2005: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_earthquakes#/media/File:Graph_of_largest_earthquakes_1906-2005.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_earthquakes#/media/Fi... For the period from 1906 to 2005, half of all the energy released by all recorded earthquakes came from just three events, one of which being the Alaskan quake. Logarithmic scales are scary.