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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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Album caption and index card: Hebgen Lake earthquake. Trace of Red Canyon fault scarp near the Blarneystone Ranch. Jeep is sitting on the edge of the road. Other edge of road is on the downthrown block just below the jeep's nose. Note subsidiary fractures in subsidence zone. This is the road I drove down the night of the earthquake. I happened to see the fault scarp and stopped the jeep in time. Elsewhere people drove over the fault scarp and damaged their cars. Gallatin County, Montana. August 1959.
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Long Beach, California, Earthquake March 10, 1933. Alexander Hamilton Junior High School on State Street and Alameda in Long Beach. View showing damage to the Junior High School. March 20, 1933. Photo by W.L. Huber.
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San Fernando Earthquake. February 1971. Fence that spans part of the shear zone was shoved out over curb, view to northwest along southwest side of Bromont, this photo is nearly across the street from the house in Photo wreb0525 and both are about 100 feet southeast of the displaced curb in Photo wreb0524. Feb 11, 1970.
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Album caption and index card: California earthquake. Road near Point Reyes Station, offset 20 feet by main fault; looking northwest. The shear zone is here 60 feet wide and traverses a swamp. The road was raised above the swamp by an embankment, and between the limits of the shear zone this embankment settled to the general level of the swamp, about 3 1/2 feet. Photography made April 28 before the road had been repaired. Point Reyes National Seashore,. Point Reyes quadrangle, Marin County, California. 1906. Published as plate 1-A in U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 324. 1907. Handwritten note on album caption: Figure 313 in Introduction to Geology by E.B. Branson and W.A. Tarr.
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Album caption and index card: Hebgen Dam spillway. Note curve in concrete core dam. Montana earthquake area. Gallatin County, Montana. August 1959. (Aerial view).
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Imperial Valley, California, Earthquake October 15, 1979. Slump and cracks at site 34 in River Park in Brawley (location shown on Plate 1, professional paper 1254). The slump near the New River shows 1 meter of vertical displacement. View is north. Photo by T.L. Youd. Figure 183-A, U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 1254.
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Peru Earthquake May 31, 1970. Damage from the flood wave at the power company camp near Huallanca, which is visible in background. The wave, 20 meters deep at this point, swept away homes that formerly covered the level area in this view and deposited a layer of mud and rocks. The fence posts in the foreground are bent in the direction of the flow. June-July 1970.
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Loma Prieta, California, earthquake. Houses not bolted down securely were easily dislodged from their foundations in downtown Watsonville, California. October 17, 1989. Slide XIV-6, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-547.
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Long Beach, California, Earthquake March 10, 1933. Compton Union High School in Compton, Ca. View showing damage to the Science Building. March 18, 1933. Photo by W.L. Huber.
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San Fernando Earthquake. February 1971. Oblique air view near California National Guard Building, 0,1 mile, north of foothill nursing home, scarps and fractures evident in field on pavement, bulldozers have been active since quake, view looking east. Feb 11, 1970.
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Fault scarp formed by the Borah Peak earthquake of October 28, 1983, at the mountain front north of Rock Creek. Broken ground of graben in foreground. Ranging pole at antithetical fault. 1450 feet north, 700 feet east, SW1/4, Sec. 34, T. 10 N., R. 22 E. Borah Peak quadrangle. Custer County, Idaho. October 9, 1984.
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San Fernando, California, Earthquake February 1971. Side views of sections of a 49.5-inch (outside) diameter x 1/4-inch welded steel pipe A 283 Gr.C., showing a mechanically coupled joint failure with 2-inch diameter rods (on exterior) from the Granada Trunk line in the Metropolitan Water District corridor. 1971.
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Southeast Alaska Earthquake, July 10, 1958. Wave damage on the south shore of Lituya Bay, from Harbor Point to the spur southwest of Crillon Inlet. August 9, 1958. Photos mdj01247 through mdj01261 form a sequence of fifteen photographs.
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San Francisco, California, Earthquake April 18, 1906. View of Stanford University Church from rear showing damage as the result of earthquake 1906.
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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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San Fernando Earthquake, February 9, 1971, 6:01am PST. Trace of the main reverse fault where it crosses Little Tujunga Road. By the time this photograph was taken 0830 11 February 1971) a dirt ramp at right had been built up the scarp. The scarp indicates more than 1-meter reverse dip-slip movement. The fence indicates little strike-slip displacement at this place, which is near the last end of the line of surface rupture. 8:30AM Feb. 11, 1971.
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San Francisco, California, Earthquake April 18, 1906. Road crack caused by the settling of faulted ground at the outer edge of a side hill road 1 mile northwest of Inverness. 1906.
map background search result map search result map Effects along the fault trace. San Francisco, California, Earthquake April 18, 1906. Arcuate incipient-slump scarp. Imperial Valley, California Earthquake. 1979. Slump and cracks in River Park. Imperial Valley, California, Earthquake. 1979. Side views of sections of a welded steel pipe, showing a mechanically coupled joint failure. San Fernando, California, Earthquake. 1971. Trucks and dozers on Madison Canyon slide cutting trough for Madison River. Hebgen Lake, Madison County, Montana Earthquake. 1959. Side views of sections of a welded steel pipe, showing a mechanically coupled joint failure. San Fernando, California, Earthquake. 1971. Effects along the fault trace. San Francisco, California, Earthquake April 18, 1906. Trucks and dozers on Madison Canyon slide cutting trough for Madison River. Hebgen Lake, Madison County, Montana Earthquake. 1959. Arcuate incipient-slump scarp. Imperial Valley, California Earthquake. 1979. Slump and cracks in River Park. Imperial Valley, California, Earthquake. 1979.