Article: Alaska pipeline's design lauded

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Alaska pipeline's design lauded -- No leaks found after strong quake By MARY PEMBERTON, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Date: 11-11-2002, Monday Section: NEWS Edtion: All Editions.=.Late Edition. Early Edition

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The trans-Alaska oil pipeline was built to withstand an 8.5 magnitude earthquake, but the engineers who designed it in the early 1970s never expected to see it tested in their lifetimes.

They were wrong about the test, but not about the pipeline.

On Nov. 3, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck Alaska's interior, producing a 145-mile-long crack across the landscape and sending boats bobbing on lakes more than 3,000 miles away in Louisiana. Alaska ...

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