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The Four Seasons Apartments, Anchorage, Alaska. 1964.

Damage From Seismic Vibration: Damage to Buildings

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1964

Summary

Alaska Earthquake March 27, 1964. The Four Seasons Apartments in Anchorage was a six-story lift-slab reinforced concrete building which crashed to the ground during the earthquake. The building was under construction, but structurally completed, at the time of the earthquake. The main shear- resistant structural elements of the building, a poured-in-place reinforced concrete stairwell and a combined elevator core and stairwell, fractured at the first floor, toppled over, and came to rest on top of the ruble of all six floors and the roof.

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U.S. Geological Survey

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Item located in U.S.Geological Survey Photographic Collection, in "Alaska Earthquakes slide Collection", March 27, 1964 earthquake, no. 26ct.

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Type Scheme Key
name photoLibrary aeq00026
number photoLibrary 53
batch photoLibrary batch07
number_in_book photoLibrary 26ct

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