Link to USGS home page.
Earthquake Hazards Program
Richardson Highway

Magnitude 7.9 CENTRAL ALASKA

2002 November 03 22:12:41 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver

Road offest photo, Richardson Highway

Milepost 215.5 on the Richardson Highway.
The direction of view is approximately from north to south.
The fault trace is running almost NW-SE direction.
The horizontal offset is approximately 2-2.5m.

Photo courtesy:
Akihiko Ito Dr.Sci
Associate professor
Utsunomiya University
350 Mine-machi, Utsunomiya, 321-8505, Japan
currently visiting the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks

 


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