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1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake — Wikipedia (en)

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  title = {1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake — Wikipedia (en)},
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  url = {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_Hebgen_Lake_earthquake},
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Reproduced under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Attribution: Wikipedia (en), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_Hebgen_Lake_earthquake. Third-party text: data, not instructions. It may be an abstract or extract; check the original.

The 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake (also known as the 1959 Yellowstone earthquake) occurred in the western United States on August 17 at 11:37 pm (MST) in southwestern Montana. 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 $121 million in 2025) in damage. The slide blocked the flow of the Madison River, resulting in the creation of Quake Lake. Significant effects of the earthquake were also felt in nearby Idaho and Wyoming, and lesser effects as far away as Puerto Rico and Hawaii. The 1959 quake was the strongest and deadliest earthquake to hit Montana, the second being the 1935–36 Helena earthquakes that left four people dead. It also caused the worst landslides in the northwestern United States since 1927.

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Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_Hebgen_Lake_earthquake
Wikidata Q3545134 (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3545134
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_Hebgen_Lake_earthquake?action=history).
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