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Snow covered ground with hospital, water tower and other buildings. Ground failure, cracking and sliding down slope.
Native Hospital landslide in Anchorage District, Cook Inlet Region, Alaska
Native Hospital landslide in Anchorage District, Cook Inlet Region, Alaska
Native Hospital landslide in Anchorage District, Cook Inlet Region, Alaska

Native Hospital landslide in Anchorage, showing graben and pressure ridge. The scar of an older landslide is transected by the slide of March 27.

Ground that has shifted downward next to damages school. Part of building is engulfed in open ground. Water tower in back.
Damaged Government Hill School, Anchorage District, Cook Inlet Region, Alaska
Damaged Government Hill School, Anchorage District, Cook Inlet Region, Alaska
Damaged Government Hill School, Anchorage District, Cook Inlet Region, Alaska

Wreckage of Government Hill School in Anchorage, as viewed from the playground, looking west. The graben in the foreground is about 12 feet deep. The water tower is undamaged.

Buildings are piles of rubble, snow on ground on major downtown road. Highrise building in background.
Fourth Avenue landslide
Fourth Avenue landslide
Fourth Avenue landslide

Warehouses at the toe of the Fourth Avenue landslide in Anchorage were destroyed by compressional buckling and foreshortening that are illustrated in slides 49 and 50.  Much of the supply of food and drink for the city of Anchorage was stored in these buildings, and they were guarded by Eskimo units of the Alaska National Guard.

Warehouses at the toe of the Fourth Avenue landslide in Anchorage were destroyed by compressional buckling and foreshortening that are illustrated in slides 49 and 50.  Much of the supply of food and drink for the city of Anchorage was stored in these buildings, and they were guarded by Eskimo units of the Alaska National Guard.

House surround by snow is undamaged and intact. Apartment building behind house is crumbling and broken in two.
Landslides and damage, Anchorage District
Landslides and damage, Anchorage District
Landslides and damage, Anchorage District

Destructive landslides and damage in Anchorage: graben at the head of the L Street landslide.
Anchorage District, Cook Inlet Region, Alaska, 1964.
Photo by A. Grantz.
Published in U. S.Geological Survey. Circular 491, Figures 18A & 18B, p.31. 1964.

Destructive landslides and damage in Anchorage: graben at the head of the L Street landslide.
Anchorage District, Cook Inlet Region, Alaska, 1964.
Photo by A. Grantz.
Published in U. S.Geological Survey. Circular 491, Figures 18A & 18B, p.31. 1964.

Two buildings on hill. One is damaged, exposed brick, no windows and other house has no damage.
Hillside apartment complex
Hillside apartment complex
Hillside apartment complex

Alaska Earthquake March 27, 1964.
Compare the damage sustained by the Hillside Apartment Building and the adjacent three-story wood-frame dwelling with the tall chimney. In general, wood frame buildings in Anchorage sustained little damage from seismic vibration.

Alaska Earthquake March 27, 1964.
Compare the damage sustained by the Hillside Apartment Building and the adjacent three-story wood-frame dwelling with the tall chimney. In general, wood frame buildings in Anchorage sustained little damage from seismic vibration.

Cracks in multiple story building. Streetlight in front with wood panels converging broken glass doors and windows.
Damage to Mt. McKinley apartments caused by 1964 earthquake
Damage to Mt. McKinley apartments caused by 1964 earthquake
Damage to Mt. McKinley apartments caused by 1964 earthquake

View of damage to the Mt. McKinley Apartments in Anchorage, Alaska caused by the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Image includes automobiles, people, and power lines. Yellow sign on building reads fallout shelter. Sign on building reads Blue mirror bar lounge. Sign on building, lower right, reads Physicians optical guild opticans.

View of damage to the Mt. McKinley Apartments in Anchorage, Alaska caused by the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Image includes automobiles, people, and power lines. Yellow sign on building reads fallout shelter. Sign on building reads Blue mirror bar lounge. Sign on building, lower right, reads Physicians optical guild opticans.

Fairweather fault 1958
Fairweather fault 1958
Fairweather fault 1958
Fairweather fault 1958

Low-level oblique aerial view of Fairweather fault. Photo taken east of North Dome, looking northwest, August 26, 1958.

Low-level oblique aerial view of Fairweather fault. Photo taken east of North Dome, looking northwest, August 26, 1958.

Black and white aerial view of a glacier.
South Cascade Glacier August 13th, 1958
South Cascade Glacier August 13th, 1958
A raft of sea otters near Cohen Island in Kachemak Bay, Alaska. Snow caped mountains in the background.
A raft of sea otters, Alaska
A raft of sea otters, Alaska
A raft of sea otters, Alaska

A raft of sea otters near Cohen Island in Kachemak Bay, Alaska. Sea otters rest together in groups called rafts. A raft can generally contain 10 to 100 sea otters. You will see either all male or all female with pups rafts.

A raft of sea otters near Cohen Island in Kachemak Bay, Alaska. Sea otters rest together in groups called rafts. A raft can generally contain 10 to 100 sea otters. You will see either all male or all female with pups rafts.

Graduate student on rock looking through a spotting scope on tripod used to observe sea otters.
Emily Reynolds watching sea otters through a spotting scope
Emily Reynolds watching sea otters through a spotting scope
Emily Reynolds watching sea otters through a spotting scope

Emily Reynolds, a graduate student, looks through a spotting scope. The student is watching sea otters in Kachemak Bay forage. USGS researchers spend hundreds of hours annually observing sea otter foraging behavior to document prey composition and energy recovery rates.

Emily Reynolds, a graduate student, looks through a spotting scope. The student is watching sea otters in Kachemak Bay forage. USGS researchers spend hundreds of hours annually observing sea otter foraging behavior to document prey composition and energy recovery rates.

Image: Sea Star Succumbing to Sea Star Wasting Disease
Sea Star Succumbing to Sea Star Wasting Disease
Sea Star Succumbing to Sea Star Wasting Disease
Sea Star Succumbing to Sea Star Wasting Disease

Unlike their smiling cartoon brethren on television, since 2013, real-life sea stars have been suffering from a wasting disease epidemic in which they lose limbs and literally disintegrate in a matter of days. 

Unlike their smiling cartoon brethren on television, since 2013, real-life sea stars have been suffering from a wasting disease epidemic in which they lose limbs and literally disintegrate in a matter of days. 

Image: Old Chevak Goose Camp
Old Chevak Goose Camp
Old Chevak Goose Camp
Old Chevak Goose Camp

Old Chevak ancestral church reborn as research site in 1986 for 25 year cooperative banding program where Chevak youth worked with U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service capturing and banding geese and swans along the Kashunuk River on Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska.

Old Chevak ancestral church reborn as research site in 1986 for 25 year cooperative banding program where Chevak youth worked with U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service capturing and banding geese and swans along the Kashunuk River on Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska.

Image: Goose Roundup
Goose Roundup
Goose Roundup
Goose Roundup

Chevak youth help funnel Cackling Geese into holding pen for banding.

Chevak youth help funnel Cackling Geese into holding pen for banding.

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