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Disaster and Functional Priorities in Anchorage DANIEL YUTZY and J. EUGENE HAAS The Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964, "Human Ecology Volume," ed. by Committee on the Alaska Earthquake of the National Research Council (Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 1970): 90-95
Abstract: Human behavior during the 5-day post impact emergency in Anchorage after the great Alaska earthquake of 1964 may be analyzed in terms of seven community processes: preservation of life, restoration and maintenance of essential services, social control (maintenance of public order), maintenance of public morale, economic activity, leisure and recreation, and emergency welfare activity. Of these seven, preservation of life, in the form of search and rescue and medical treatment, was given immediate and sustained attention. Restoration of utilities and communications facilities also received priority consideration, as did the maintenance of public order. The usual economic activities (manufacture, distribution, sales, finance) and leisure activities were suspended until the emergency was under control. The Alaskan "frontier spirit" made no apparent contribution to the rapid recovery of Anchorage.
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