The Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964, Part 1National Academy of Sciences, 1968 - Earth sciences |
Contents
General Introduction Conclusions and RecommendationsGeorge W Housner and Paul C Jennings | 1 |
IntroductionGeorge W Housner and Paul C Jennings 245 | 246 |
Response of Buildings in AnchorageGlen V Berg | 283 |
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Alaska earthquake Alaska Railroad apartment building beams bluff Bootlegger Cove Clay breakwater Bridge caused ceiling collapsed columns concrete construction Cordova Corps of Engineers cracks Creek deck displacement earth earthquake damage Earthquake of 1964 east Eklutna elevation Elmendorf AFB exterior facilities failure fixtures floor forces Fort Richardson foundation frame Glacier Government Hill graben ground motion Highway horizontal installed joints Kodiak Lake landslide layer liquefaction load located March 27 MLLW occurred piers piles pipe Power Plant quake reinforced reinforced-concrete repair Richardson River rock roof sandblows SCALE IN FEET Scott Glacier seismic Seldovia sensitivity Seward Shannon & Wilson shear strength shear walls shown in Figure silt silty slab slide area slope small-boat basin soil soil liquefaction spandrel steel stress structure surface tank tion tsunami Turnagain Turnagain Arm U.S. Army U.S. Army FIGURE U.S. Coast U.S. Geological Survey Valdez waterfront Whittier zone