This Day in Alaska History-January 8th, 1908
This Day in Alaska History-August 7th, 1938
On August 7th, 1938, a Pan American Airways, twin-engine “baby clipper” departed the Sand Point Naval Air Station, five miles northeast of Seattle, and headed north for Ketchikan and Juneau in an air service experiment to Alaska. The aircraft flew an outside route over water in what was to be a seven-hour flight to Ketchikan but was delayed […]
This Day in Alaska History-August 5th, 1991
Huge 8.2 Magnitude Gulf of Alaska Earthquake Generates Little or No Wave Action
At 10:15 pm on Wednesday night, residents along the southern coast of Alaska were shaken awake by a huge earthquake that prompted evacuations all along the Aleutian Chain, Alaska Peninsula, Kodiak Island, and the southern Kenai Peninsula. Concerned citizens headed for higher ground and evacuation centers as sirens wailed in the coastal communities. The earthquake, […]