Tsunami awareness a priority nearly 60 years after last major Alaska event
![Damage along the Kodiak waterfront following the March 27th, 1964 earthquake and tsunami. Image-U.S. Geological Survey Tsunami awareness a priority nearly 60 years after last major Alaska event](https://alaska-native-news.com/wp-content/uploads/image2021-03-27-1-701x468.jpg)
It has been more than half a century since a major tsunami washed itself upon Alaska. The magnitude 9.2 earthquake of March 27, 1964, in Prince William Sound unleashed tsunamis that devastated coastal communities. They wiped out the village of Chenega and wrought damage upon Whittier, Seward, Kodiak and Valdez. A tsunami that day reached […]