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1989 Loma Prieta

  • Damaged Building
  • Damaged Buildings
  • Unsafe to Occupy Signs
  • Tom Brokaw Prepares Script
  • Searching for Victims
  • Searching for Victims
  • Rescue Efforts
  • Geologist with Rescue Personnel
  • Messages at Emergency Center
  • Search-and-Rescue Team
  • Crack Down Front of Store
  • Storefront Damage
  • Damaged Lane Separators
  • Structural Damage
  • Structural Failure of Bridges
  • Structural Failure of House
  • Dislodged House
  • Dislodged House
  • House Town Off Foundation
  • House Moved Off Foundation
  • Buttressed Foundation
  • Bedroom
  • Differential Settlement
  • Ground Cracking and Differential Settlement
  • Bicycles Crushed by Brick
  • Cars Crushed by Brick
  • Car Crushed by Brick
  • Failure of Unreinforced Brick
  • Collapsed Brick
  • Collapsed Brickwork
  • Car Crushed Under Building
  • Crushed Car
  • Remains of Apartment Complex
  • Apartment in Danger of Collapse
  • Clock Tower
  • Destroyed Causeway
  • Destroyed House
  • Failure of Porch
  • Fructure Cuts Roadbed
  • Support Column of Bridge
  • Support Columns of Highway
  • Surface Rupture Across Highway
  • Failure of Joist/Columns Interface
  • Collapsed sections of Cypress viaduct, Highway 880
  • Collapsed Bridge Section
  • Deformed Retaining Walls
  • Watering Down of Burned Area
  • 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake generated thousands of landslides
  • Collapsed Wall
  • Collapsed Outer Wall
  • Collapsed Building
  • Collapsed Porch
  • Collapsed Garage
  • Aerial View of Collapsed Tower
  • Aerial View of Collapsed Tower
  • Aerial View of Collapsed Section
  • Aerial View of Collapsed Buildings
  • Aerial View of Slide
  • Aerial View of Large Slides
  • Aerial View of Highway
  • Aerial View of Highway
  • Aerial View of Roadbed Collapse
  • Electric Wires Being Removed
  • Broken Utility Lines
  • "Sand Boil" on Bay Bridge
  • Liquefaction in Subsurface Layer of Sand
  • Liquefaction in Deposits of River
  • Liquefaction in Deposits of River
  • Liquefaction in Deposits of River
  • Loma Prieta Liquefaction
  • Vent of Sand Volcano
  • Roadcut near Summit Road
  • Landslide Debris on Highway
  • Landslide Debris on Highway
  • Landslide-Displaced Trees
  • Broken Concrete Divider
  • Extensional Cracks in Spillway
  • Extensional Crack
  • Surface Cracks
  • Crack System Destroys Driveway
  • Vertical Displacement Across Tennis Court
  • Buckled Sidewalk
  • Lateral Compression
  • Radio Transmission Towers
  • Radio Transmission Towers
  • Head Scarp of Small Slide
  • Landslide North of Fort Funston
  • Cliff Failure North of Tunitas Creek
  • Cliff Failure
  • Cypress Viaduct
  • Cypress Viaduct
  • Cypress Viaduct
  • Cypress Viaduct
  • Reinforcement Bars of Cypress Viaduct
  • Reinforcement Bars of Cypress Viaduct
  • Reinforcement Bars of Cypress Viaduct
  • Demolition of Cypress Structure
  • Pancaked Upper Deck of Cypress viaduct
  • Sheared Reinforcement Bar
  • Scattered Books in Bookstore
  • Ceramics Shop
  • Dislodged Books and Duct
  • Unfastened Bookcases
  • Residents Camped in Yards
  • Seismographs at the U.S. Geological Survey
  • Marina District, San Francisco, after the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake

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