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    Earthquake exhibit opens Friday at Pratt Museum
    Earthquake exhibit opens Friday at Pratt Museum
    September 17, 2014 6:06 pm

    “Communities, Disaster and Change,” a traveling exhibit coordinated by the Valdez Museum and Historical Archive, opens with a reception 5…

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    This photo from the Homer News collection donated to the Pratt Museum shows fuel tanks, buildings and a car flooded on the Homer Spit after it subsided about 6 feet during the March 27, 1964, Great Alaska Earthquake.-Photo provided, Pratt Museum, Homer News collection
    1964 Homer News coverage told quake tales
    By Michael Armstrong • March 26, 2014 5:27 pm

    In a normal news week in 1964, the announcement that the city of Homer’s incorporation vote had been certified would…

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    Left, big tides flooded the Salty Dawg on the Spit after the quake.-Photo provided, Pratt Museum
    50 years ago Quake rattles Homer
    By MCKIBBEN JACKINSKY AND MICHAEL ARMSTRONG • March 26, 2014 5:19 pm

    Fifty years ago today Alaska was slammed with a 9.2 earthquake. It occurred at 5:36 p.m. and its epicenter was…

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    A bald eagle sits on top of a tsunami warning tower on the Homer Spit. -Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
    Officials to test Alaska Tsunami Warning System
    By BY MICHAEL ARMSTRONG • March 22, 2013 4:26 pm

    As part of Tsunami Preparedness Week, local, state and federal agencies will conduct a test of the Alaska Tsunami Warning…

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