The earthquake lasted four minutes and thirty-eight seconds. It was a magnitude 9.2 earthquake. It remains the most powerful earthquake recorded in North American history, and the second most powerful earthquake recorded in world history.
Nearby, a tsunami destroyed the village of Chenega, killing 23 of the 68 people who lived there. Post-quake tsunamis severely affected Whittier, Seward, Kodiak, and other Alaskan communities, as well as people and property in British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California.
Tsunamis also caused damage in Hawaii and Japan. Evidence of motion directly related to the earthquake was also reported from Florida and Texas.
Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport
Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport is a major airport in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located southwest of downtown Anchorage. The airport is named for Ted Stevens, a U.S. senator from Alaska in office from 1968 to 2009.
It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a medium-hub primary commercial service facility.
Steve Cowper
Stephen Cambreleng Cowper (born August 21, 1938) is an American Democratic politician. He was born in Petersburg, Virginia. Cowper was the sixth Governor of Alaska from 1986 to 1990. He was governor during the 1989 "Exxon Valdez" oil spill.
Golden bowerbird
The golden bowerbird ("Prionodura newtoniana") is a species of bird in the family Ptilonorhynchidae, the bowerbirds. It is endemic to Queensland in Australia. Today, it lives only in the Atherton region.
Turlock, California
Turlock, California is a city in Stanislaus County in California. In 2016, the city had a population of 72,796 people. It is the second-largest city in Stanislaus County.
California State University, Stanislaus is located in Turlock.
Turlock is located between Modesto and Merced. Turlock is situated in the Central Valley.
Turlock has a semi-arid climate.
Death and state funeral of George H. W. Bush
On November 30, 2018, George H. W. Bush died at his home in Houston, Texas of natural causes. Bush was the 41st President of the United States, the 43rd Vice President of the United States, the former Director of Central Intelligence, and a former member of the United States House of Representatives. This happened nearly 8 months after the death of his wife Barbara Bush in April.
Bush was the first president to die since Gerald Ford in 2006, and, at the age of 94 years and 171 days, he surpassed Ford for the title of longest-lived U.S. president in history.
Shortly after news broke of Bush's death, on December 5, 2018, Donald Trump declared a National Day of Mourning and ordered all flags "throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions" lowered to half staff for the remainder of the year.
The state funeral of Bush is the official funerary rites conducted by the Government of the United States. He was interred at the George Bush Presidential Library. The state funeral and respective activities occurred over a period of four days from December 3 to December 6, 2018.
The corps of cadets of the United States Military Academy, United States Air Force Academy, and United States Coast Guard Academy, and the corps of midshipmen of the United States Naval Academy are to be immediately assembled to be officially informed of the death by the superintendents of their respective institutions.
Very early on the morning of December 1, 2018, the flags at the White House were lowered to half staff.
Before his death, Bush filed a 211-page document with the Military District of Washington, which had a request for an aerial flyover of fighter jets in missing man formation by the United States Air Force during his state funeral, as well as final interment and burial to occur at the George Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas.
Bush made plans for a national funeral service to be held at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
Bush lay in state in the United States Capitol rotunda from the evening of December 3 through the morning of December 5.
Tributes were made by Jon Meacham, Brian Mulroney, Alan K. Simpson, and George W. Bush at the Washington National Cathedral. President Donald Trump and former Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Bush and Jimmy Carter attended the funeral.
International leaders attending these services include: Britain's Prince Charles and former Prime Minister John Major, former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, Polish President Andrzej Duda and former President Lech Wałęsa, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari Abdullah II of Jordan and Speaker of Taiwan's Congress Su Jia-chyuan.
Shortly after the Washington service, Bush's body was taken back to Houston by a custom-made train where a service was held. On December 6, 2018, his body was buried at the George Bush Presidential Library next to his wife Barbara Bush.
Deaths in December 2018
The following is a list of deaths that should be noted in December 2018. For deaths that should be noted before the month that the world is in, please see "Months". Names under each date are noted in the order of the alphabet by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are noted here also if it is worth noting.
Each listing of a death must have a source. If no reference is included, the death notice will be removed. The following are the requirements of adding a name to the list in its order: name, age, where they came from, what the person is known for, cause of death (if known) and a source.
Ice shelf
An ice shelf is a large platform of ice, where a glacier flows down to a coastline. An ice shelf is usually very thick, usually or more. Some ice shelves float on the water. Ice shelves that float are usually much thinner.
The biggest areas of ice shelf are in Antarctica:
Farid Zizi
Farid Zizi is a French aerospace engineer.
Since the 1st of August 2018, he is head of the France Aviation Civile Services (previously DSNA Services).
He is known for having been head of the Education and Research at the French Civil Aviation University and head of the Air Navigation Commission at ICAO.
LaTasha Diggs
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs is a poet, writer, vocalist, and sound artist. She also serves as a poetry editor for the online journal “exittheapple” and a founding editor of “YoYo/SO4” magazine.
Diggs was born and raised in Harlem, New York. She began her studies at the Borough of Manhattan Community College and later proceeded to get her Master of Art degree (MA) at New York University. Diggs later received her Master's of Fine Arts (MFA) at California College of the Arts.
In 2013, Diggs published three poems "black herman’s last asrah levitation at magic city, Atlanta 2010," "My First Black Nature Poem,™" and "the originator." Diggs is also the author of the poetry collection "TwERK" (2013) and several chapbooks including "Ichi-Ban", "Ni-Ban" (MOH Press), and" Manuel is destroying my bathroom", as well as the album "Television" (2003).
Latasha Diggs is most known for her poetry collection “TwERK” which was published in 2003. Her work has been published in LA review among others, featured in Yale University, The Museum of Modern Art and many more. In addition to "TwERK," Diggs was associated with poetry collections including "Television" and "exittheapple", with writer Greg Tate. Diggs' poetry has been published in "Ploughshares", "Jubilat", "Fence", "LA Review", "Palabra", and "Black Renaissance Noir".
Her performance works have been featured at The Kitchen, Exit Art, Recess Activities Inc, the Whitney Museum of American Art and MoMa (Poets & Writers).