Editing Valdez, Alaska (section)

===Good Friday earthquake===
The city of Valdez was badly shaken and damaged in the 1964 [[Good Friday earthquake]]. [[Soil liquefaction]] of the glacial silt that formed the city's foundation led to a massive underwater landslide, which caused a section of the city's shoreline to break off and sink into the sea. The underwater soil displacement caused a local [[tsunami]] {{convert|30|ft|m}} high that traveled westward, away from the city and down Valdez Bay. 32 men, women, and children were on the city's main freight dock to help with and watch the unloading of the SS ''Chena,'' a supply ship that came to Valdez regularly. All 32 people died as the dock collapsed into the ocean with the violent landslide. There were no deaths in the town.

[[File:Alaska - Valdez - NARA - 23942621.jpg|thumb|right|Valdez in the 1940s]]
[[File:Alaska pipeline route near Valdez River.jpg|thumb|The Valdez townsite was abandoned and relocated following the [[1964 Alaska earthquake|1964 earthquake]] and was used as a pipe yard for the [[construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System]], as shown in this 1974 photo.]]
Residents continued to live there for an additional three years while a new site was being prepared on more stable ground {{convert|4|mi|0|spell=in}} away. The new construction was supervised by the [[United States Army Corps of Engineers|Army Corps of Engineers]]. They transported 54 houses and buildings by truck to the new site, to re-establish the new city at its present location. The original town site was dismantled, abandoned and eventually burned down.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

In the early 1900s, city leaders George Cheever Hazelet and Andrew Jackson Meals dreamed of moving the original site of Valdez to higher, more stable ground. Long after they were gone, their vision was finally realized. The 1964 earthquake was the defining moment. What is now known as "Old Town" was devastated. The descendants of both men responded by revitalizing the old partnership of 1898. They formed The Port Valdez Company to donate 115 acres of land, where the failed "Hazeletville" development once stood, so the City of Valdez could rebuild and thrive again.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hazelet's Journal |url=https://hazeletsjournal.com/ |access-date=September 25, 2023}}</ref>
[[File:"Hazeletville" Valdez, AK Chamber of Commerce c1900.tif|thumb|"Hazeletville" Valdez, AK c1900]]