Oil Storage Tanks Become a Pyre -- Smoke rises high into the Alaska sky from burning oil tanks at Whittier. One person is known to be dead in the area. The tanks ruptured and burst during the earthquake and tidal wave which followed.

Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Oil Storage Tanks Become a Pyre -- Smoke rises high into the Alaska sky from burning oil tanks at Whittier. One person is known to be dead in the area. The tanks ruptured and burst during the earthquake and tidal wave which followed.

Associated Press · [ca. March 1964]

RightsCC0 — Public Domain

CollectionDigital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

[Information from item housing] Earthquake Alaska 1964

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