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January 26 – The Night the Earth Moved and No One Knew Why
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On January 26, 1700, a massive earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone struck the Pacific Northwest, triggering a tsunami that crossed the ocean and hit Japan. In this episode of The Strange History Podcast, Amy explores the strange true story of the “orphan tsunami,” the silent disaster with no Western eyewitnesses, and how scientists reconstructed the event centuries later using geology and Indigenous oral history.
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