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Earthquake An earthquake is the motion or trembling of the ground produced by sudden displacement of rock in the Earth's crust. Earthquakes result from crustal strain, volcanism, landslides, and collapse of caverns. Photo Credit: National Geophysical Data Center Note: Use your keyboard arrow keys to move through the slides

Structural failure #1 Northridge, California Earthquake January 17, 1994 Magnitude 6.7 Photo Credit: J. Dewey, U.S. Geological Survey

Structural failure #2 Loma Prieta earthquake, October 17, 1989 Oakland, California Magnitude: 6.9 Photo Credit: H.G. Wilshire, U.S. Geological Survey

Structural failure #3 Santa Monica Freeway Northridge earthquake, January 17, 1994 Magnitude 6.7 Photo credit: M. Celebi, U.S. Geological Survey

Structural failure #4 Armenian Earthquake December 7, 1988 Spitak, Armenia Magnitude 6.9 Photo Credit: C.J. Langer, U.S. Geological Survey

Structural failure #5 San Francisco, CA, October 18, 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake Magnitude 6.9 Photo Credit: D. Perkins, U.S. Geological Survey

Structural failure #6 Izmit (Kocaeli) earthquake, August 17, 1999 Izmit, Turkey Magnitude 7.4 Photo Credit: National Geophysical Data Center

Landshift #7 Imperial Valley, California, Earthquake October 15, 1979 Magnitude 6.5 Photo Credit: University of Colorado

Landshift #8 Motagua, Guatemala February 4, 1976 Magnitude 7.5 Photo Credit: U.S. Geological Survey

Landshift #9 Government Hill School, March 27, 1964 Anchorage, Alaska Magnitude 9.2 Photo Credit: NOAA/NGDC

Landslide #10 El Salvador January 13, 2001 Magnitude 7.6 Photo Credit: USGS

Landslide #11 Puget Sound, Washington May 2, 1996 Magnitude 5.3 Photo Credit: USGS

Landslide #12 Seattle, Washington April 29, 1965 Magnitude 6.5 Photo Credit: University of California, Berkeley

Landslide #13 Alaska Earthquake March 27, 1964 Magnitude 9.2 Photo Credit: U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA

Liquefaction #14 Niigata, Japan June 16, 1964 Magnitude 7.4 Photo Credit: National Geophysical Data Center

Resulting fires #15 Great Alaska Earthquake March 28, 1964 Valdez, Alaska Magnitude 8.4 Photo Credit: EERI, Slides on Learning from Earthquakes, Set IV

Resulting tsunami #16 Alaska Earthquake March 28, 1964 Whittier, Alaska Magnitude 9.2 Photo credit: U.S. Geological Survey

Resulting tsunami #17 Flores Island, Indonesia September 1, 1992 Magnitude 7.0 Photo Credit: Harry Yeh, University of Washington

Human impact Personal messages posted on van at Emergency Center. Loma Prieta earthquake, 1989 Photo credit: C.E. Meyer, U.S. Geological Survey