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- The earthquake measured 7.2 on the moment magnitude scale, caused a huge landslide, resulted in over 28 fatalities and left $ 11 million (equivalent to $115 million in 2023) in damage.
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The earthquake measured 7.2 on the moment magnitude scale, [1] caused a huge landslide, resulted in over 28 fatalities and left $ 11 million (equivalent to $115 million in 2023) in damage. The slide blocked the flow of the Madison River, resulting in the creation of Quake Lake.
Jan 22, 2024 · This is the story of the Hebgen Earthquake of 1959, sometimes called the Yellowstone Earthquake. This was no passing quake. This earthquake registered a 7.6 on the Richter scale, the largest ever recorded in the Rocky Mountains. Earthquake Lake: Yellowstone Tragedy.
Aug 5, 2019 · The official magnitude of the earthquake is 7.3, and it was located just outside the western boundary of Yellowstone National Park, ~6.5 miles WNW of West Yellowstone, Montana. The earthquake caused 28 fatalities, with most of those as a result of a large landslide that was triggered in the Madison Canyon.
Aug 10, 2019 · Many summer houses in the Hebgen Lake area were damaged in the Aug. 17, 1959 earthquake: houses and cabins shifted off their foundations, chimneys fell and pipelines broke.
Jan 5, 2012 · On the night of Aug. 17, 1959, at 11:37 p.m. local time, a magnitude-7.5 earthquake struck just northwest of Yellowstone National Park, near Hebgen Lake in southwestern Montana. Almost instantly, the shaking triggered a massive landslide that buried 19 people beneath 73 million metric tons of debris, and fatally wounded nine others.
Mar 25, 2024 · Tragically, the eastern (upstream) edge of the Madison Slide buried the overflow camping area just below the U.S. Forest Service’s Rock Creek Campground. Twenty-six people died there, including 19 whose bodies were never recovered and are presumed entombed in the slide mass.
Aug 17, 2019 · The 1959 quake killed 28 people, most in the Madison River Canyon east of the lake. But the lake itself was heavily affected by the 7.3 quake. The epicenter of the quake was actually closer to the east end of the lake than to either the canyon where so many people were killed, or the dam at the west end of the lake. And it hit hard.
