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Fourth Avenue landslide, Anchorage, Alaska. 1964

Avalanches and Subaerial Landslides

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Date Taken
1964

Summary

Alaska Earthquake March 27, 1964. Warehouses at the toe of the Fourth Avenue landslide in Anchorage were destroyed by compressional buckling and foreshortening that are illustrated in slides 49 and 50. Much of the supply of food and drink for the city of Anchorage was stored in these buildings, and they were guarded by Eskimo units of the Alaska National Guard.

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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. 51ct.

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Type Scheme Key
name photoLibrary aeq00051
number photoLibrary 78
batch photoLibrary batch07
number_in_book photoLibrary 51ct

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