The night the world shook: Remembering the 1959 Hebgen Lake Earthquake

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1. It's quite a story...

it tilted part of Yellowstone Lake inside the park, crumbled the grand fireplace in he dining hall of Old Faithful Inn and trapped park visitors for hours as there were boulders and slides on the roads. There's a short video about it with all the news clips and interviews with a timeline, there's a short book that goes with it.

If you go to the area, there are several places along the Madison River where you can see remnants of the old road and parts of cabins still lodged in the mud near Campfire Lodge.

The museum in West Yellowstone had an exhibit about it but the museum has changed a great deal so i don't know about that now, haven't been in for while.

ETA: And a whole bunch of people got buried under the pile of mountain, they say it was 80 million cubic tons of material, and it buried an entire campground... they're still there.