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Earthquake Hazards and Damage -Ground Motion -Ground Failure -Tsunamis -Fire/Infrastructure
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Northridge, California Earthquake January 17, 1994 Magnitude 6.7 Ground Motion
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Loma Prieta earthquake, October 17, 1989 Oakland, California Magnitude: 6.9
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Armenian Earthquake December 7, 1988 Spitak, Armenia Magnitude 6.9
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1985 Mexico City: Steel Frame Building
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1985 Mexico City
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1985 Mexico Railroad System
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San Francisco, CA, October 18, 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake Magnitude 6.9
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Izmit (Kocaeli) earthquake, August 17, 1999 Izmit, Turkey Magnitude 7.4
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Imperial Valley, California, Earthquake October 15, 1979 Magnitude 6.5 Ground failure
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Motagua, Guatemala February 4, 1976 Magnitude 7.5
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Government Hill School, March 27, 1964 Anchorage, Alaska Magnitude 9.2
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El Salvador January 13, 2001 Magnitude 7.6
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Puget Sound, Washington May 2, 1996 Magnitude 5.3
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Alaska Earthquake March 27, 1964 Magnitude 9.2
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Niigata, Japan June 16, 1964 Magnitude 7.4
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Great Alaska Earthquake March 28, 1964 Valdez, Alaska Magnitude 8.4 Fire
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Alaska Earthquake March 28, 1964 Whittier, Alaska Magnitude 9.2 Tsunami
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Flores Island, Indonesia September 1, 1992 Magnitude 7.0
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Tectonic Setting USGS
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Main shock and aftershocks ~1200 km of the plate boundary moved, max. displacement ~ 15 m (?, preliminary est.)
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Earthquake and Tsunami Damage, Banda Aceh, Sumatra
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Earthquake and Tsunami Damage, Sri Lanka
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Tsunami wave trough, Sri Lanka coast
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Tsunami wave, Sri Lanka; note strong current
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Banda Aceh, Sumatra, before tsunami http://geo-world.org/tsunami/
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Banda Aceh, Sumatra, after tsunami Also: http://www.digitalglobe.com/http://www.digitalglobe.com/
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