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4/64. Seldovia Scene - Little damage was evident in this scene showing Seldovia's boardwalk. The earthquake left few scars but it left its mark invidiously with a 3.5 food land subsidence that virtually doomed the waterfront, the town's business and industrial center

4/64. Seldovia Scene - Little damage was evident in this scene showing...

Seldovia A black and white photo of a small town with a dock and buildings. A view of the village of circa 1950. Public domain postcard scan.

L and K Streets subsidence looking south from Fourth Avenue

L and K Streets subsidence looking south from Fourth Avenue

Original caption: L and K Streets subsidence looking south from Fourth Avenue [There are no photograph numbers accompanying the photos. They are captioned in order that they appear in folder. All dates are cont... More

9/64. Seldovia - Shows raised breakwaters in the foreground. The breakwaters were raised 4 feet after the 3.5 foot subsidence at Seldovia accompanying the March 27 earthquake. The work was completed in October at a cost of $226,639 under contract by Northern Corporation, Anchorage, Alaska

9/64. Seldovia - Shows raised breakwaters in the foreground. The break...

Seldovia Public domain photograph of Alaska, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

10/64. Seldovia Floods - The 3.5 foot land subsidence at Seldovia made floods inevitable on the boardwalk during high tides. Residents are shown wading about their business on the boardwalk
L Street subsidence near Eighth Avenue. Presbyterian Community Hospital in left background

L Street subsidence near Eighth Avenue. Presbyterian Community Hospita...

Original caption: L Street subsidence near Eighth Avenue. Presbyterian Community Hospital in left background. [There are no photograph numbers accompanying the photos. They are captioned in order that they appe... More

Uplift and Subsidence Associated with the Great Aceh-Andaman Earthquake   of 2004

Uplift and Subsidence Associated with the Great Aceh-Andaman Earthquak...

The magnitude 9.2 Indian Ocean earthquake of December 26, 2004, produced broad regions of uplift and subsidence. In order to define the lateral extent and the downdip limit of rupture. This image is from NASA T... More

Lost Hills Subsidence Animation - NASA satellite images

Lost Hills Subsidence Animation - NASA satellite images

This frame from an animation depicts ground subsidence resulting from the extraction of oil. The oil fields are located near the community of Lost Hills, California, approximately 100 km northwest of Bakersfiel... More

InSAR Measurements of Subsidence in California Central Valley June 2007--December 2010

InSAR Measurements of Subsidence in California Central Valley June 200...

This still from an animation shows, in exaggerated terms, how the surface of the southern Central Valley of California deformed from the period 2007 to 2011. NASA/JPL-Caltech

James 'Ooker' Eskridge (left), mayor of the town of

James 'Ooker' Eskridge (left), mayor of the town of

James 'Ooker' Eskridge (left), mayor of the town of Tangier, gives Col. Jason Kelly, commander of the Norfolk District, a boat tour around Tangier Island, on Dec. 4, 2015. Kelly came to brief the town of a litt... More

Residents gather in the town’s combined school here

Residents gather in the town’s combined school here

Residents gather in the town’s combined school here to listen to a panel of engineers, scientist and leadership from the Norfolk District give status updates on projects the district is working on around the is... More

Gwcitysubsidence

Gwcitysubsidence

This building in Mexico City was built on piles to prevent it from settling into the soft lakebed deposits. The underlying aquifer has compacted beneath the building and the building appears to be “rising” out... More

Road dip caused by melting permafrost

Road dip caused by melting permafrost

An example of thermo-karst topography caused by the melting of permafrost causing the road to drop. In this instance the relative elevation change is approximately 10 feet. Image ID: line5193, NOAA's Americ... More

Gwsanjoaquin

Gwsanjoaquin

Approximate location of maximum subsidence in the United States identified by research efforts of Dr. Joseph F. Poland (pictured). Signs on pole show approximate altitude of land surface in 1925, 1955, and 197... More

Subsidence at portage

Subsidence at portage

Subsidence at Portage, Alaska

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