One evening in the Great Alaska earthquake shocked and writhed for more than four minutes registering a magnitude In Anchorage whole city blocks disappeared leaving only massive craters and rubble Through the dark terrifying night news reporter Genie Chance stood at her microphone passing along messages to desperate people sitting by their radios a husband working in the bush heard that his wife was alive distraught families heard that their sons on a Boy Scout camping trip were okay a couple heard that their children had been found The radio crackled with line after line of good news mdash pure [... more]