![]() These trees, combined with the countless trees that are completely submerged, provide excellent cover and habitat for trout, although it can complicate the fishing. It offers decent fly fishing for brown and rainbow trout.Īs Quake Lake flooded much of the former Madison River canyon, thousands of dead trees poke up through the water. Quake Lake measures six miles long, up to a third of a mile wide, covers 611 acres and is more than 180 feet deep. ![]() The barren spot on the mountain is where the landslide happened that blocked the Madison River, thus allowing the formation of Quake Lakeįollowing all of this, Quake Lake – also known as Earthquake Lake – was formed. The Army Corps of Engineers, in a race against time, blasted a channel through the landslide, allowing the Madison River to resume its flows before a catastrophic flood would have happened if the newly formed lake had crested over the landslide. The Madison River below the landslide dried up completely for a time, resulting in significant fish kill. The result of the quake is that twenty-eight people died from the landslide and five more died from the resulting flood. Three different sections of Highway 287 slid into the newly formed lake and numerous cabins along the former Madison River were damaged or completely destroyed. The landslide also caused tornado force winds that fanned out in front of the landslide and flood, destroying most everything in its path. Additionally, the north shore of Hebgen Lake, which lies just upstream, dropped an amazing 19 feet, cracking Hebgen Dam in four places and creating massive waves on the lake that spilled over the dam and raced downstream in a massive flood. The earthquake was so strong that it triggered a massive landslide on Sheep Mountain, on the western end of Madison Canyon (nine miles downstream from Hebgen Dam), which blocked the Madison River completely. ![]() Quake Lake was formed when an earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale rocked this part of Montana on August 17th, 1959. In 2015, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck 105km (65 miles) west of Murghob, killing two and destroying hundreds of homes.ĭuring the most recent earthquakes, tremors were felt in capital Dushanbe about 700km (435 miles) to the west.Quake Lake, also called Earthquake Lake, is one of the more interesting natural features in Montana. The area has experienced at least 18 earthquakes of a magnitude 6.5 or larger over the last century. The lake was formed by a 1911 earthquake that caused a landslide that dammed the Murghab River, according to USGS. ![]() Notable quake, preliminary info: M 6.8 – 67 km W of Murghob, Tajikistan The area is sparsely populated but is home to the Sarez Lake which could potentially flood vast areas in several countries if disrupted. ![]() Murghob is the district capital with a population of a few thousand in the Pamir Mountains. The quake struck at about 5:37am (00:37 GMT) on Thursday about 65km (40 miles) west of Murghob near the border with China’s Xinjiang province, USGS and the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. A series of earthquakes has hit a remote region of Tajikistan bordering China, with the strongest temblor measured at magnitude 6.8, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). ![]()
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