From San Francisco, at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union
The largest inland earthquake to strike North America in more than a century shook south central Alaska on Nov. 3, 2002 (SN: 11/16/02, p. 307: Available to subscribers at Shaked Alaska: A sleepy fault wakes and reveals new links). Small pulses in atmospheric pressure detected in Fairbanks soon after the quake suggest that the magnitude 7.9
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