At 11:30 p.m. Aug. 17, 1959, Martin Stryker was asleep in a tent with his two younger brothers at the Cliff Lake campground near a mountainside about 18 miles west of West Yellowstone, Mont. His ...
One of these faults triggered the most destructive earthquake ever recorded in the Rocky Mountains — the deadly magnitude-7.3 Hebgen Lake quake in 1959. The epicenter was about 15 miles (24 kilometers ...