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Article: Alaska pipeline's design lauded
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
- Article date:
- November 11, 2002
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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 ...