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This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since they first ran.\n\nWhen Alaska was hit by a devastating earthquake in 1964, it was the voice of Genie Chance \u2014 a journalist, wife and mother \u2014 that held the state together in the aftermath.\n\nIn the episode, we heard about sociologists from Ohio State University\u2019s Disaster Research Center rushing to Anchorage to study residents\u2019 behavior.\n\nToday, Jon Mooallem, who brought us Genie\u2019s story in May, speaks to a sociologist from the University of Delaware to make sense of the current moment and how it compares with the fallout of the Great Alaska Earthquake.\n\n\n\n\nGuest: Jon Mooallem, writer at large for The New York Times Magazine and author of \u201cThis Is Chance!,\u201d a book about the aftermath of the earthquake.\n\n\n\n\nFor an exclusive look at how the biggest stories on our show come together,\xa0subscribe to our newsletter. You can read the latest edition here.\n\n\n\n\nBackground Reading: For our Opinion section, Jon Mooallem wrote about the lessons of the 1964 earthquake.Listen to Jon talk about his experience writing and researching for his book about the aftermath of the disaster on an episode of The Times\u2019s Book Review podcast.\n\n\nFor more information on today\u2019s episode, visit\xa0nytimes.com/thedaily