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San Fernando, California, Earthquake February 1971. Section of 24-inch by 3/8- inch plate pipe telescoped at a mechanically coupled joint (coupling removed) from the Maclay Reservoir outlet line on Foothill Boulevard in the Sylmar area. 1971.
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Album caption and index card: Hebgen Lake earthquake. General overall view of the Madison slide. In the lower left corner is Earthquake Lake. The main mass of the slide is show in the center of the photograph with the dolomite debris showing in the right center. The steeply dipping schist beds are shown along the crestline and in the right center of the photograph are the remnants of the dolomite buttress. Madison County, Montana. August 1959.
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Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake October 17, 1989. Extension cracks in the Marina District of San Francisco formed by the lateral spreading of a liquefied sandy landfill. Figure 25, U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1045.
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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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Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake October 17, 1989. Santa Cruz Area. Removal of debris while searching for victims at the Pacific Garden Mall. Slide XIII-5, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-547.
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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. Looking at the damage to the Long Beach Polytechnic High School Auditorium. Photo from H.M. Engle.
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Coalinga, California, Earthquake May 2, 1983. Severe damage to the Pacific Gas and Electric Company Coalinga substation. May 1983. See also photos hmg00030 and hmg00031.
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February 9, 1971, San Fernando Earthquake. Demonstrating the vulnerability of the modern urban society to the damaging effects of a nearby earthquake. Overturned equipment at the Sylmar electrical converter station. Power distribution to more than 600,000 customers in southern California was disrupted because of widespread damage to electrical power facilities. Photo by T. L. Youd. Los Angeles County, California. 1971. Published in U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1360 as Figure 2-C. 1985.
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North Peak of Nevados Huascaran, the source of debris avalanche that buried the town of Yungay and Ronrajirca. An estimated 25-50 million cubic waters of and ice broke from the part of the peak in shadow. Peru. 1970.
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Guatemala Earthquake 1976. Map of Guatemala City and environs showing the locations of the larger secondary faults of the Mixco zone associated with the February 4 earthquake (solid and dashed lines). Also shown are major faults (dotted lines) delineated by geologic mapping in the area prior to the earthquake. All of the faults in this area are predominantly normal dip-slip faults with both down to the east and down to the west displacements. Numbers along fault traces indicate the maximum measured vertical displacement in centimeters. The distributive 1976 secondary faulting occurs within a broad graben as indicated in the schematic structure section (A-A'). Slide 22, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-165.
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Kaoiki, Hawaii, Earthquake November 16, 1983. Details of failure of Waldron Ledge landslide. View downward from the road of the jumbled mass of rock resulting from disintegration of the slide block; the mass did not travel far from the base of the cliff. Photo by J.M. Buchanan-Banks. 1983. Figure 44.24- U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 1350.
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Album caption: Hibernia Bank Building. San Francisco. 1906. Index card: California earthquake. Earthquake and fire wrecked Hibernia Bank Building. San Francisco, San Francisco County, California. 1906.
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San Francisco, California, Earthquake April 18, 1906. Distortion of pavement and tracks on Mission Street near Seventh. 7 am, April 19, 1906.
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San Fernando Earthquake. February 1971. Oblique air view southeast down Cometa Street at corner of Fernmont Street. The main trace of left lateral and thrust displacement crosses Cometa Street at the Barricades (TOP CENTER), extensive fractures due to differential movement of pavement and curb blocks. Feb 11, 1970.
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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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Album caption and index card: California earthquake. East side of Howard Street between Seventeenth and Eighteenth Streets, San Francisco. House shifted to the left on its foundation 25 inches. San Francisco County, California. 1906.
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Loma Prieta, California, earthquake. Many homeowners buttressed their foundations to prevent further damage from aftershocks in downtown Watsonville, California. October 17, 1989. Slide XIV-7, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-547.
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Guatemala Earthquake 1976. Chimney collapse from a one-story house in Guatemala City. 1976. Figure 48, U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 1002.
map background search result map search result map Earthquake damage to houses on east side of Howard Street between Seventeenth and Eighteenth Streets. San Francisco County, California. 1906. Landslide and other damage at lower Van Norman Dam. San Fernando, California, Earthquake February 1971. 1971. Section of 24-inch by 3/8- inch plate pipe telescoped at a mechanically coupled joint (coupling removed). San Fernando, California, Earthquake February 1971. Hibernia Bank Building. San Francisco, California. 1906. Generall view of the Madison slide. Madison County, Montana. 1959. Landslide and other damage at lower Van Norman Dam. San Fernando, California, Earthquake February 1971. 1971. Section of 24-inch by 3/8- inch plate pipe telescoped at a mechanically coupled joint (coupling removed). San Fernando, California, Earthquake February 1971. Earthquake damage to houses on east side of Howard Street between Seventeenth and Eighteenth Streets. San Francisco County, California. 1906. Hibernia Bank Building. San Francisco, California. 1906. Generall view of the Madison slide. Madison County, Montana. 1959.