1. 1958 Lituya Bay, Alaska Earthquake Magnitude 7.9
Rupture Length 90 to 280 km
Surface Displacement 3.5 to 6.5 m
Photographs by Lloyd Cluff and George Plafker

2. Fairweather fault

3. 1958 Lituya Bay Earthquake, M 7.9 Rupture length 95 to 280 km
Fairweather fault
6.2 m RL
Lituya Bay

5. Line of
disrupted
trees along
fault rupture

7. SS-RL 4 to 6 m
Disrupted tree zone
3 to 5 m wide

8. Disrupted tree zone 3 to 5 m wide
Lituya Bay Earthquake, Fairweather Fault (6.2 m)
Surface fault rupture through trees
Disrupted tree zone
3 to 5 m wide

9. Glacial Ice Faulted by RL-Slip Along
Fairweather Fault m
Surface rupture zone varies, 1 to 50 m wide