The 1964 Alaska Good Friday Earthquake registered 9.2 on the Richter scale — the second most powerful ever recorded, behind only Chile's 9.5 in 1960. Despite its colossal force, only 131 people died, largely because Alaska was so sparsely populated.
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The episode opens with the standard iHeart intro before Josh and Chuck launch into a characteristically warm and witty cold open. Josh reveals a remarkable coincidence: the very first earthquake he ever felt occurred while he was reading about the 1964 Alaska earthquake, caused by a 6.8 tremor originating in Cuba and felt all the way in Central Florida. Chuck, who lived in Los Angeles for five years without ever feeling a quake, marvels at the irony. The exchange immediately illustrates one of the episode's central themes: that earthquakes reach far further than most people imagine. Josh jokes that 60 percent of listeners probably stopped listening when he put on an exaggerated voice, before reassuring the rest that they'd be sorry if they did — this is a story worth hearing.
The 1964 Alaska Good Friday Earthquake measured 9.2, making it the second most powerful earthquake ever recorded, behind only the 1960 Chile earthquake at 9.5.
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