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To: SmoothSail who wrote (177076)	4/6/2009 3:48:29 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 225578

I've been lucky to have had all the fun and none of the pain and agony with earthquakes. My last one occurred while I was on SI while I was in Alaska. I started feeling woozy as I typed, and then I saw the chandeliers shaking. The worst earthquake I sensed was the one that fell on a campground in Montana way back in 1959. It created a new lake, which was called for a time Quake Lake. Now it's called Hebgen Lake. I was in Montana attending a drive-in movie with my lifelong buddy and my sister. We thought somebody was jumping on the bumper or our tires going flat so we got out and looked. Somebody from the newspaper saw us and the next day we read about two young men at the drive in getting out of the car to check their bumper. We weren't really young men, as I was a sophomore in high school. The 1959 Yellowstone earthquake[1] also known as the Hebgen Lake earthquake[1] was a powerful earthquake that occurred on August 17, 1959[1] at 11:37 pm (MST)[2] in southwestern Montana. The earthquake was registered at magnitude 7.3 – 7.5[3] on the Richter scale.[4] The quake caused a huge landslide that caused over 28 fatalities and left $11 million (1959 USD, $74.1 million 2006 USD) in damage. The quake induced landslide also blocked the flow of the Madison River resulting in the creation of Quake Lake. Effects of the earthquake were also felt in Idaho and Wyoming.[5] The 1959 quake was the strongest and deadliest earthquake to hit Montana since the 1935-36 Helena earthquakes left 4 people dead and caused the worst landslides in the history of the Northwestern United States since 1927.[5] en.wikipedia.org