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Title: Damaged buildings
Contributor: Unknown (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: Damaged buildings due to the San Fernando, California 1971 earthquake.
The 1971 earthquake occurred in a sparsely populated area of the San Gabriel Mountains, near San Fernando. It lasted about 60 seconds, and, in that brief span of time, took 65 lives, injured more than 2,000, and caused property damage estimated at $505 million. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/states/events/1971_02_09.php
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_595
filename: jcg_earthquakes_1971_005
oclc: 566078511
islandora: 78_595
Language: English
Subject: Buildings
Building failures
Disasters
Earthquakes
Earthquake damage
San Fernando Earthquake, Calif., 1971
Place: San Fernando
California
San Gabriel Mountains
Relation: John C. Gordon Photograph Collection

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