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School dormitory destroyed by earthquake 6.4 on the Richter scale.
17th August 1999.
http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/turkeyearthquake/2.html
Shaken, Turkey
A violent earthquake rips through
south-eastern Turkey, levelling buildings and trapping hundreds of
children in the ruins of their school dormitory. Rescue workers expect
the death toll to exceed 100.
The following link shows numerous small photos of
earthquake-damaged buildings:
http://www.pdc.org/iweb/earthquake_history.jsp?subg=1
The following six pictures are from this link:
http://www.ussartf.org/earthquakes.htm



The following five images from this website:
http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/igviewer.php?imgid=207&gid=16&index=0
The
California earthquake of April 18, 1906 ranks as one of the most
significant earthquakes of all time. It measured a magnitude of 7.8.
Shaking damage was equally severe in many other places along the fault
rupture. The frequently quoted value of 700 deaths caused by the
earthquake and fire is now believed to underestimate the total loss of
life by a factor of 3 or 4. Most of the fatalities occurred in San
Francisco, and 189 were reported elsewhere.
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Alaska
Earthquake March 27, 1964. One span of the Million Dollar truss bridge
of the former Copper River and Northwestern Railroad was dropped into
the Copper River by the earthquake, and the other truss spans were
shifted on their piers.
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Northridge,
California Earthquake, January 17, 1994. At the Northridge Fashion
Center, near the earthquake epicenter, the second floor of Bullocks
Department Store collapsed onto the bottom story. The shear between
the waffle slab and the columns caused complete separation of the slab
system from the columns and a pancake collapse.
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Northridge,
California Earthquake, January 17, 1994. A view of the parking
structure on the campus of California State University. The bowed
columns are of reinforced concrete. The structure has precast moment-
resisting-concrete frames on the exterior and a precast concrete
interior designed for vertical loads. The inside of the structure
failed, and with each aftershock the outside collapsed slowly toward
the inside until finally the west side failed totally. The reinforced
concrete columns were extremely bent.
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Great
Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) Earthquake, January 16, 1995. The picture shows
an office building with a partially destroyed first floor. The
majority of partial or complete collapses were in the older,
reinforced concrete buildings built before 1975. However, significant
non-structural damage was also observed for buildings of relatively
recent steel or composite construction.
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