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Wreckage of J.C. Penney Department Store at Fifth Avenue and D Street

By Alaska Science Center March 1964 (approx.)
Multiple floors, walls collapse of multistory department store. Equipment clearing debris and a dozen men standing around.
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Album caption: Wreckage of the J.C. Penney's Department Store at Fifth Avenue and D Street. Building failed after sustained seismic shaking. Most of rubble has been cleared from the streets. Anchorage, Anchorage District, Cook Inlet Region, Alaska, 1964. (Photo by George Plafker). Published as Figure 5 in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional Paper 542-A. 1965.

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U.S. Geological Survey