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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/EastHanSeismograph.JPG “SEISMOSCOPE” INVENTED IN CHINA IN 133 BC (HAN DYNASTY)
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Collapsed buildings: Dec. 7, 1988, Armenia, M6.9, ~25,000 people died http://www.pep.bc.ca/images/hazard_prep/Earthquake_Photos/11_236.jpg
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Collapsed buildings: January 17, 1995, Kobe, Japan, M6.9, depth ~5 km http://www.pep.bc.ca/images/hazard_prep/Earthquake_Photos/21_430.jpg
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Parking structure at Cal State Northridge, collapsed by Northridge earthquake (01/17/94) http://i.livescience.com/images/ig14_earthquake_13_02.jpg
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http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/analysis/compare/docs/taiwan_six.jpg September 21, 1999 M 7.6 Taichung, Taiwan, killing 2,375 people. The quake toppled 13,000 high-rise apartments
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Collapsed Buildings: 1985 Mexico City http://pro.corbis.com/images/OF008330.jpg?size=67&uid=%7BEE6BD845-A8E9-4559-ABB5-6965E039DF17%7D
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Building collapse styles, Mexico City earthquake, 1985
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Skyscraper swaying
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Collapsed transportation infrastructure: Kobe 1995 http://www.maelor-humanities.org.uk/GCSEhum/Resources/PP-photos/pp-KeyIss-1/kobe-earthquake.jpg
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Collapsed freeway, 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, CA http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/nca/3Dgeologic/images/Cypress_LCluff_sm.jpg
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Collapsed freeway, 1971 San Fernando CA earthquake
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Freeway damage, 1971 San Fernando earthquake (CA)
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Collapsed freeway, 1971 San Fernando CA earthquake
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Collapsed Infrastructure: 1964 Good Friday earthquake, Alaska http://www.pep.bc.ca/images/hazard_prep/Earthquake_Photos/7_155.jpg
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http://www.johnmartin.com/earthquakes/eqshow/images/64700405.GIF COMPRESSED RAILROAD, 1964 GOOD FRIDAY EARTHQUAKE, ALASKA
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COLLAPSED BRIDGE, NIIGATA, JAPAN, JUNE 16, 1964, M=7.4 http://www.johnmartin.com/earthquakes/eqshow/images/64700409.GIF
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Soil Liquefaction: magnitude 7.4 earthquake on June 16, 1964 in Niigata, Japan http://www.pep.bc.ca/images/hazard_prep/Earthquake_Photos/1_25.jpg
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Ground moving and liquefaction on street Ground moving and liquefaction in park
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Foundered/fractured ground: 1964 Good Friday earthquake, Anchorage hts., AK http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/AlaskaQuake-Turnagain.jpg
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Foundered/fractured ground: 1964 Good Friday earthquake, Anchorage hts., AK http://www.pep.bc.ca/images/hazard_prep/Earthquake_Photos/1_24.jpg
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Surface Rupture: magnitude of 6.8 1968 near Meckering, Australia http://www.pep.bc.ca/images/hazard_prep/Earthquake_Photos/1_28.jpg
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http://www.johnmartin.com/earthquakes/eqshow/images/64700410.GIF LANDSLIDING UNDER RAILROAD, SEATTLE, WA, APRIL 29, 1965, M=6.5
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Landslides: 1994 Northridge earthquake, CA http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1995/ofr-95-0213/fig16tmb.gif
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Landslides: photo shows dust rising from landslides in Simi valley, CA after the 1994 Northridge earthquake http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1995/ofr-95-0213/fig20vga.jpg
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Landslides: aftershock of 2008 Seichuan earthquake, China http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00672/landslide-flee1_672381n.jpg
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Landslides: 2008 Seichuan earthquake, China http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-05/15/xin_00205051509394532409750.jpg
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Landslides: 2008 Seichuan earthquake, China http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_a2JvElU8gh4/SCgx2yl8BbI/AAAAAAAAAF0/HTAxwpUnrwc/s1600/PICT3094%2Bcorrected.jpg
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Dammed rivers: 2008 Seichuan earthquake, China http://scienceblogs.com/highlyallochthonous/2008/05/chengdhu_for_2008135.jpg
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http://www.geonet.org.nz/images/news/2008/landslide_view.jpg
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Cracked earthen dam: after 1994 Northridge earthquake http://www.emporia.edu/earthsci/student/dahms3/los_angeles_dam.jpg
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Slumped earthen dam: 1971 San Fernando earthquake
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Slumped earthen dam: 1971 San Fernando earthquake Photo by Al Boost, taken from: Natural Disasters, by Patrick Abbot (used w/o permission)
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Slumped earthen dam: 1971 San Fernando earthquake USGS Fact Sheet 096-95
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Sand blow: http://topex.ucsd.edu/es10/lectures/lecture12/sand_blow.jpg
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Sand blow in Rann southwest of Khadir Island. New salt marks area of vented water following the earthquake. Photograph by M. Tuttle http://www.ceri.memphis.edu/gujarat/images/Photo8.jpg
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SAN FRANCISCO, ~1 MONTH AFTER THE 1906 EARTHQUAKE. MOST BUILDINGS THAT WERE NOT DAMAGED BY THE EARTHQUAKE ITSELF BURNED. HERE, MUCH OF THE RUBBLE HAS BEEN CLEARED AWAY http://www.johnmartin.com/earthquakes/eqshow/images/64700220.GIF
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http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1996/ofr-96-0263/
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