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Loma Prieta, California, earthquake. Non-tectonic surface rupture crosses Highway 280 north of Foothill Expressway. Los Altos, California. 1989.

Dates

Date Taken
1989-10-17

Summary

Loma Prieta, California, earthquake. Non-tectonic surface rupture crosses Highway 280 at the interface of a road cut and fill area 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) north of Foothill Expressway. Note the partial collapse of the sound wall which was under construction at the time of the earthquake. Los Altos, California. October 17, 1989. Slide VII-3, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-547.

Contacts

Photographer :
Nakata, John K.
(other) :
U.S. Geological Survey

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name photoLibrary njk00014
number photoLibrary 27801
batch photoLibrary btch105
number_in_book photoLibrary 14ct

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