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Pleasure Boating in Lituya Bay

by Jim Shepard
Issue #102
Spring 2007
  Two and a half weeks after I was born, on July 9th, 1958, the plates that make up the Fairweather Range in the Alaskan panhandle apparently slipped twenty-one feet on either side of the Fairweather fault, the northern end...

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