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Offset Highway Guardrail: The fault trends through a highway overpass (which did not fail), causing the guardrail to be offset ~2.8 m. (Turkey)
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Title: Offset Highway Guardrail
Description: The fault trends through a highway overpass (which did not fail), causing the guardrail to be offset ~2.8 m.
Location: Turkey
Date Taken: 9/2/1999
Photographer: , U.S. Geological Survey
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1999 Izmit, Turkey Earthquake (Set) RSS Media RSS Slideshow Fault Through a School: This picture is on the far east end of the rupture. The fault went directly through the school - the chalkboard reads something like: "We're all happy because school is out Offset and Moletrack: This picture shows an offset 3m and is in a large field with a well expressed moletrack. A moletrack is a descriptive term for how strike slip faults often look when seen at the surface.
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