“SEISMOSCOPE” INVENTED IN CHINA IN 133 BC (HAN DYNASTY)

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“SEISMOSCOPE” INVENTED IN CHINA IN 133 BC (HAN DYNASTY)

Collapsed buildings: Dec. 7, 1988, Armenia, M6.9, ~25,000 people died

Collapsed buildings: January 17, 1995, Kobe, Japan, M6.9, depth ~5 km

Parking structure at Cal State Northridge, collapsed by Northridge earthquake (01/17/94)

September 21, 1999 M 7.6 Taichung, Taiwan, killing 2,375 people. The quake toppled 13,000 high-rise apartments

Collapsed Buildings: 1985 Mexico City

Building collapse styles, Mexico City earthquake, 1985

Skyscraper swaying

Collapsed transportation infrastructure: Kobe

Collapsed freeway, 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, CA

Collapsed freeway, 1971 San Fernando CA earthquake

Freeway damage, 1971 San Fernando earthquake (CA)

Collapsed freeway, 1971 San Fernando CA earthquake

Collapsed Infrastructure: 1964 Good Friday earthquake, Alaska

COMPRESSED RAILROAD, 1964 GOOD FRIDAY EARTHQUAKE, ALASKA

COLLAPSED BRIDGE, NIIGATA, JAPAN, JUNE 16, 1964, M=7.4

Soil Liquefaction: magnitude 7.4 earthquake on June 16, 1964 in Niigata, Japan

Ground moving and liquefaction on street Ground moving and liquefaction in park

Foundered/fractured ground: 1964 Good Friday earthquake, Anchorage hts., AK

Foundered/fractured ground: 1964 Good Friday earthquake, Anchorage hts., AK

Surface Rupture: magnitude of near Meckering, Australia

LANDSLIDING UNDER RAILROAD, SEATTLE, WA, APRIL 29, 1965, M=6.5

Landslides: 1994 Northridge earthquake, CA

Landslides: photo shows dust rising from landslides in Simi valley, CA after the 1994 Northridge earthquake

Landslides: aftershock of 2008 Seichuan earthquake, China

Landslides: 2008 Seichuan earthquake, China

Landslides: 2008 Seichuan earthquake, China

Dammed rivers: 2008 Seichuan earthquake, China

Cracked earthen dam: after 1994 Northridge earthquake

Slumped earthen dam: 1971 San Fernando earthquake

Slumped earthen dam: 1971 San Fernando earthquake Photo by Al Boost, taken from: Natural Disasters, by Patrick Abbot (used w/o permission)

Slumped earthen dam: 1971 San Fernando earthquake USGS Fact Sheet

Sand blow:

Sand blow in Rann southwest of Khadir Island. New salt marks area of vented water following the earthquake. Photograph by M. Tuttle

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