Radio announcement during Alaska earthquake 1964

Radio announcement of the 1964 Alaska Earthquake

The following paragraph is a recording from the radio announcer R. Pate, at the radio station KHAR, who was on duty when the earthquake struck. (Bolt,1978)
"Hey, boy!—Oh-wee, that's a good one! Hey—boy oh boy oh boy! Man, that's an earthquake! Hey, that's an earthquake for sure!—Whee-eee! Boy oh boy—this is something you'd read—doesn't come up very often up here, but I'm going through it right now! Man—everything's moving—you know, all that stuff in all the cabinets have come up loose... Who-eee! Scared the hell out of me, man! Oh boy, I whish this house would quit shaking! That damn bird cage—oooo—oh man! I've never lived through anything like this before in my life! And it hasn't even shown signs of stopping yet, either—ooooeeee—the whole place is shaking—like someone was holding—Hold it, I'd better put the television on the floor. Just a minute—Boy! Let me tell you that sure scared the hell out of me and it's still shaking, I'm telling you! I wonder if I should get outside? Oh boy! Man, I'm telling you that's the worst thing I ever lived through! I wonder if that's the last one of 'em? Oh man! Oh—Oh boy, I'm telling you that's something I hope I don't go through very often. Maa-uhn!—I'm not fakin' a bit of this— I'm telling you, the whole placed just moved like somebody had taken it by the nape of the neck and was shaking it. Everything's moving around here!—I wonder if the HAR radio tower still is standing up. Man! You sure can't hear it, but I wonder what they have to say on the air about it? The radio fell back here— but I don't think it killed it—Oh! I'm shaking like a leaf—I don't think it hurt it. Man, that could very easily have knocked the tower down—I don't get anything on the air—from any of the stations—I can't even think! I wonder what it did to the tower. We may have lost the tower. I'll see if any of the station come on—No, none of them do. I assume the radio is okay—Boy! The place is still moving! You couldn't even stand up when that thing was going like that—I was falling all over the place here. I turned this thing on, and started talking just after the thing started, and man! I'm telling you, this house was shaking like a leaf! The picture frames—all the doors were opened—the dishes were falling out of the cabinets—and it's still swaying back and forth—I've got to go through and make a check to make sure that none of the water lines are ruptured or anything. Man I hope I don't live through one of those things again...."