Stewart Smith, assistant professor of Geophysics at California Institute of Technology, holds up the graph from a new device called a Digital Recording Seismograph System, that was just completed 3/27, in his lab here 3/28. The lines read from bottom to top, showing full deflection of the needle for some three hours from the first shock (at 8 or above on the richter scale) and reverberations as the result of the earthquake in Alaska.

United Press International · [ca. March 1964]

[Information from item housing] Earthquake Alaska 1964