"On Good Friday, March 27, 1964, the Alaska earthquake occurred which was probably the largest or equal to the largest earthquake that has ever been recorded," Dr. Karl Bowman writes. "Those of us living in Anchorage were quickly isolated, and, since the badly damaged part of the city was roped off and no one allowed inside of it, and since I was completely occupied with things at the Alaska Psychiatric Institute, I have very little firsthand information about some of the early days of the earthquake except in this one special site."