1958 Lituya Bay, Alaska Earthquake

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• 1958 Lituya Bay, Alaska Earthquake
• Magnitude 7.9
• Rupture Length 90 to 280 km
• Surface Displacement 3.5 to 6.5 m

Photographs by Lloyd Cluff and George Plafker
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Fairweather fault
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1958 Lituya Bay Earthquake, M 7.9 Rupture length
95 to 280 km Fairweather fault 6.2 m RL
Lituya Bay
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Line of disrupted trees along fault rupture
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SS-RL 4 to 6 m
Disrupted tree zone 3 to 5 m wide
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Lituya Bay Earthquake, Fairweather Fault (6.2 m)
Surface fault rupture through trees
Disrupted tree zone 3 to 5 m wide
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Glacial Ice Faulted by RL-Slip Along Fairweather
Fault - 4.8 m
Surface rupture zone varies, 1 to 50 m wide
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