The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Alaska_earthquake" id="mw2Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1964 Alaska earthquake">Good Friday earthquake</a>, the most powerful earthquake recorded in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America" id="mw2g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="North America">North American</a> history at a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_magnitude_scale" id="mw2w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Moment magnitude scale">magnitude</a> of 9.2 strikes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southcentral_Alaska" id="mw3A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Southcentral Alaska">Southcentral Alaska</a>, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchorage,_Alaska" id="mw3Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Anchorage, Alaska">Anchorage</a>.