Madison River Canyon Earthquake
One of the largest earthquakes in US history
It was a quiet summer evening in 1959. Hundreds of vacationers slept in their tents, cars and trailers near Hebgen Lake and along the Madison River outside the border of Yellowstone National Park. Near midnight a heavy shock rocked the Madison Range with the strongest earthquake recorded at the time. The quake triggered a massive landslide sending a mountain of rock down onto unsuspecting tourists in the campground below. Within moments the slide had completely cut off the Madison River.
Upstream, the quake created gigantic waves in Hebgen Lake that swayed from one shore to the other. Huge swells of water rushed downstream with nowhere to go, flooding cabins, destroying homes and sweeping away survivors. In all 28 people died, either buried beneath the rubble of the slide or drowned by the waves of water from the lake. It was an earth shaking event that left its mark not only on the families of those who lost loved ones, but also on the landscape of the Gallatin National Forest and southwestern Montana.
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