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Title: Collapsed highway overpass
Contributor: Gordon, John C. (photographer) (Creator)
Contributing Institution: San José State University, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: John C. Gordon Photographic Collection
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact San Jose State University Special Collections & Archives Department. http://library.sjsu.edu/sjsu-special-collections/sjsu-special-collections-and-archives
Description: Collapsed overpass at Route 14-Route, 5 interchange, northwest of San Fernando, California, caused by the February 9, 1971 San Fernando, California earthquake.
Seismic shaking, compression, and extension along length of roadway are all responsible for damage to the overpass.
Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPG format using Photoshop CS3.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
8 x 10 in.
Identifier: islandora:78_602
filename: jcg_earthquakes_1971_012
oclc: 566083383
islandora: 78_602
Language: English
Subject: Disasters
Earthquakes
Express highways
Roads
Earthquake damage
San Fernando Earthquake, Calif., 1971
Place: San Fernando
California
Relation: John C. Gordon Photograph Collection

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