Although coal burning contributes a very small amount, the high mercury levels in fish result from spills of mercury directly into the water. false. The idea of cogeneration is to produce electricity from steam, heat, or other forms of energy that are by-products of another process-usually manufacturing. true A fuel assembly in a nuclear power plant consists of
Alaska is home of the the second largest earthquake ever recorded (1964 Great Alaska Earthquake, magnitude 9.2) Alaska has 11 percent of the world's recorded earthquakes. Three of the eight largest earthquakes in the world were in Alaska. Seven of the ten largest earthquakes in the United States were in Alaska.
This magnitude 7.9 shock was felt by residents over 400,000 square miles of Alaska, as far south as Seattle, Washington, and east to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada. The largest magnitude earthquake in the central interior of Alaska since October 1947 occurred on October 29, 1968.Rated magnitude 6.5, the shock centered southeast of the village of Rampart, on the Yukon River.ore than 80 percent of the planet's tremors occur in the circum-Pacific belt, and about six percent of the large, shallow earthquakes are in the Alaska area, where as many as 4,000 earthquake at various depths are detected in a year. Early reports of earthquakes in Alaska are fragmentary.