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Turnagain Heights landslide, Anchorage

By Alaska Science Center March 1964 (approx.)
Snow covered landslide with tress and houses. Ridges and cracks moving downhill in center and left side of photo.
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Part of the Turnagain Heights landslide in Anchorage shortly after the earthquake.
Anchorage, Anchorage District, Cook Inlet Region, Alaska, 1964.
Photo by W.R. Hansen, 1964.
Published in Frontispiece, U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 541, 1966.

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U.S. Geological Survey