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Long Beach, California, Earthquake March 10, 1933, killed 115 people, with hundreds of injured and about $40 million in damages. The epicenter was located just offshore near Newport Beach. Magnitude 6.3 at 5:54pm. Long Beach Polytechnic High School. Photo from Capt. T.J. Maher, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
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Long Beach, California, Earthquake March 10, 1933,
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San Francisco, California, Earthquake April 18, 1906. Wrecked building in San Francisco from the 1906 earthquake.
Guatemala Earthquake 1976. Benque Viejo Bridge on the verge of collapse after failure of supports is shown by arrow. 1976. Figure 65, U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 1002.
Mexico City Earthquake, September 19, 1985. X-shaped fracture-damaged columns on a structure that is also permanently swayed. 1985.
San Fernando, California, Earthquake February 1971. Damaged Los Angeles County ambulance still under collapsed covered parking at Olive View Hospital. 1971.
San Fernando, California, Earthquake February 1971. Landslide(?) damage to lower Van Norman Dam. February 9, 1971.
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Fallen stair tower of Olive View Hospital. San Fernando, California, Earthquake February 1971. 1971.
San Fernando, California, Earthquake February 1971. Fallen stair tower of Olive View Hospital, viewed across the parking lot. 1971.
San Fernando, California, Earthquake February 1971. Damaged steel-reinforced concrete support on Interstates 5 and 14. 1971.
Album caption: Broken monument in the cemetery of St. John's Lutheran Church, Charleston. Charleston earthquake of August 31, 1886. Charleston County, South Carolina. 1886. Index card unavailable.
Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake October 17, 1989. Crack system near Summit Road, half a mile southwest of Highway 17. View is northwest. A wide zone of dominantly extensional cracks passes several feet in front of the house. Figure 10-A, U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1045.
San Fernando Earthquake. February 1971. Collapsed overpass at interchange of Highways 5 (GOLDEN STATE FREEWAY), and 210 (FOOTHILL FREEWAY), seismic shaking, compression, and extension along length of roadway are all responsible for damage, view looking east. Overpass was completed but not all segments were yet in service. San Fernando Valley Juvenile Hall at right, Feb 11, 1971.
San Francisco, California, Earthquake April 18, 1906. Secondary cracks on the shore of Bolinas Lagoon. Plate 4-A, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 324; Figure 55, U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 993.
San Fernando, California, Earthquake February 1971. Stud framing, showing holes torn in the tar paper exterior of a new frame house 0.3 mile east of Veterans Hospital. 1971.
San Francisco, California, Earthquake April 18, 1906. Atheneum Theatre and Post Office, in Santa Rosa April 1906.
Album caption: Slump in Union Street between Pierce and Steiner Streets. Photograph previously published in Lawson and others (1908, pl. 88B) with caption "Slip of a fill.on Union Street, just west of Steiner Street, San Francisco." City and County of San Francisco, California. 1906. Published as figure 53 in U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 993. 1978. (Not available from U.S.G.S. Photo Library. Photograph by H.O. Wood, courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.)
San Fernando Earthquake, February 9, 1971, 6:01am PST. [Location centered at 34 degrees 24.67 minutes north, 118 degrees 24.04 west. Magnitude 6.6. Depth 8.4 km. The total surface rupture was roughly 19 km long with a maximum slip of 2 meters. Also known as the Sylmar Earthquake. This earthquake caused $500 million in property damage and 65 deaths, most deaths occurred at the Veteran's Administration Hospital.] Scarp in front of Foothill Nursing Home on Foothill Blvd, near Vaughn Street. The Nursing Home pictured was extensively damaged during the quake. View towards southeast. Feb 11, 1971.
Album caption and index card: Seismic Geyser, during an explosive thermal eruption. Note the trees that have been killed by the heat and eruptive activity. According to George D. Marler of the U.S. National Park Service, this geyser developed from a crack caused by the Hebgen Lake Earthquake of August 17, 1959. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. 1970.
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Vent of a sand volcano produced by liquefaction is about 4 feet across. The strip spanning the vent is a conduit for the drip irrigation system. The furrow spacing in the strawberry field is about 4 feet on center. Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake October 17, 1989. Watsonville area. Slide XIV-2, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-547.
Guatemala Earthquake 1976. Collapse of the dormitory-classroom unit of the newly built Catholic boy's school, Collegio San Javier, owing to the failure of some second story columns in the part of the building on the right. This three-story framed, reinforced concrete structure was designed and built to California Seismic Code specifications. There could have been major loss of life in these flattened second floor classrooms had the earthquake occurred during the day, rather than at night. 1976. Slide 46, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-165.
Imperial Valley, California, Earthquake October 15, 1979. Arcuate incipient-slump scarp with 13 centimeters of vertical separation in the embankment at site 33 east of River Park in Brawley (location shown on Plate 1, professional paper 1254). View is southeast. Photo by T.L. Youd. Figure 182, U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 1254.
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