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Image: Mussel Rock landslide due to 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

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Description: Landslide on steep hillside near Mussel Rock due to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. This photograph was taken by the US Geological Survey in 1906, and it was later published as figure 24 in the 1976 paper "Historic Ground Failures in Northern California Triggered by Earthquakes, Professional Paper 993" by T. Leslie Youd and Seena N. Hoose. Image was digitized in 2005 and high resolution images were added to the online publication in 2007. USGS URL for photo: https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/51ddd82fe4b0f72b447224bc Publication URL: https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1978/pp0993/ Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.3133/pp993 USGS suggested citation and version history for publication: https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1978/pp0993/version_history.txt URL to folder of all images from this publication: https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1978/pp0993/photographs/print-resolution/
Title: Mussel Rock landslide due to 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
Credit: Photo from US Geological Survey in 1906. Found in USGS database: https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/51ddd82fe4b0f72b447224bc
Author: US Geological Survey
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