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Chenega Village after tsunami waves hit in 1964

By Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center 1964 (approx.)
Photograph shows what remains of a building foundation in the foreground and a house in the background and up a slight elevation
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Photograph taken in 1964 of the main part of the Chenega village site in Alaska. Pilings in the ground mark the former locations of homes swept away by tsunami waves. The schoolhouse on high ground was undamaged.

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Public Domain.