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Earthquake Damage to Schools

Entry ID: gov.noaa.ngdc.G01198

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Summary

Abstract: ABSTRACT: This set of slides graphically illustrates the potential danger that major earthquakes pose to school structures and to the children and adults who happen to be inside at the time of the earthquake. It includes pictures from 1886 to 1988. The set includes nine destructive earthquakes that occurred in the U.S. and eight earthquakes that occurred in foreign countries. These unusual slides ... show earthquake damage to school s and university buildings around the world. They graphically illustrate the potential danger to our schools, and to the welfare of our children, that results from major earthquakes. The slides range from Algeria, where a collapsed school roof is held up only by students' desks; to Anchorage, Alaska, where an elementary school structure has split in half; to California and other areas, where school buildings have sustained damage to walls, roofs, and chimneys. Interestingly, all the United States earthquakes depicted in this set of slides occurred either on a holiday or before or after school hours, except the 1935 tremor in Helena, Montana, which occurred at 11:35 a.m. It undoubtedly would have caused casualties had the schools not been closed days earlier by Helena city officials because of a damaging foreshock. Students in Algeria, the People's Republic of China, Armenia, and other stricken countries were not so fortunate. This set of slides represents 17 destructive earthquakes that occurred in 9 countries, and covers more than a century--from 1886 to 1988. Two of the tremors, both of which occurred in the United States, were magnitude 8+ on the Richter Scale, and four were magnitude 7-7.9. The events represented by the slides (see table below) claimed more than a quarter of a million lives. List Of Earthquakes represented in the slide set are: Algeria: El Asnam, Armenian SSR: Spitak, Australia: Cadoux, Ecuador: Esmeraldas, Mexico: Veracruz, People's Republic of China: Tangshan, Peru: Lima, Turkey: Lice, USA: Alaska: Anchorage, California: San Francisco, Long Beach, Kern County, Coalinga, Montana: Hebgen Lake, Helena, South Carolina: CharlestonIn the following descriptions of earthquakes the location is only approximate. The damage is in millions of U.S. dollars.

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DATA SET CREATORS: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC > National Geophysical Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce (comp)

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Purpose: PURPOSE: Make available Damage Photos for research and education

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Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: 60.4

S: -30.47

E: 118.11

W: -147.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: Please See Summary

Dataset Title: Earthquake Damage to Schools

Dataset Release Date: 1994

Dataset Release Place: Boulder, CO

Dataset Publisher: National Geophysical Data Center

Version: First

Other Citation Details: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazard/hazards.shtml

Online Resource: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?eq_1=5&t=101634&s=0&d=...

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1866-08-01

Stop Date: 1980-10-31

Science Keywords

SOLID EARTH > TECTONICS > EARTHQUAKES > EARTHQUAKE OCCURRENCES

SOLID EARTH > TECTONICS > PLATE TECTONICS > FAULT MOVEMENT

ISO Topic Category

BIOTA

OCEANS

Platform

FIELD SURVEYS

Access Constraints These data are available for download from the URL given below.

Use Constraints This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Ancillary Keywords

ABUNDANCE

DISTRIBUTION

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Originating Center

Data Center

Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia

Data Center URL: http://data.aad.gov.au

Data Center Personnel
Name: DATA OFFICER AADC Phone: +61 3 6232 3244 Fax: +61 3 6232 3351 Email: metadata at aad.gov.au Contact Address: Australian Antarctic Division 203 Channel Highway City: Kingston Province or State: Tasmania Postal Code: 7050 Country: Australia

Distribution

Distribution Media: HTTP

Distribution Size: 8,722 kb

Distribution Format: word, jpeg

Fees: free

Personnel

SIMON WARD

Role: INVESTIGATOR

Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Role: DIF AUTHOR

Phone: +61 3 8344 4850

Fax: +61 3 8344 7909

Email: s.ward at zoology.unimelb.edu.au

Contact Address:

University of Melbourne

Department of Zoology

City: Parkville

Province or State: Victoria

Postal Code: 3010

Country: Australia

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2001-04-09

Last DIF Revision Date: 2008-04-10

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