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Nicaragua Earthquakes December 1972, Managua. Collapsed three-story reinforced concrete Customs House office building. This structure is astride fault B at a locality where the aggregate sinistral slip is 25.9 centimeters.
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Nicaragua Earthquakes December 1972, Managua. Compressional rupture and lateral buckle of the north-south trending curb along the fault zone B.
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Nicaragua Earthquakes December 1972, Managua. Swath of destroyed buildings along fault C. Fault trace is through the center of the photograph. Open fractures that trend north-south in the street pavement are in echelon to the fault. Structure on the right is typical of tarquezal (wood and adobe) construction that was extensively damaged.
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Nicaragua Earthquakes December 1972, Managua. One of many waterline breaks along the earthquake fractures.
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Nicaragua Earthquakes December 1972, Managua. Central Managua, looking south. Fault D passes obliquely across the photograph and through the Central Bank which is heavily damaged. The adjacent Bank of the Americas is essentially undamaged. Many of the smaller structures that remain standing are badly damaged and will be razed. Extensive open areas in the foreground are where structures have collapsed due to the earthquake and/or fire. Much of the debris in the right foreground was already cleared away.