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FIGURE 3.5
Overview of damage to the Kuang Fu Elementary School by surface fault rupture associated
with the Chi-chi (Taiwan) earthquake on September 21, 1999. (
Photograph from the Taiwan Collection,
EERC, University of California, Berkeley.
)
FIGURE 3.6
Portion of a building that remained standing at the Kuang Fu Elementary School. This por-
tion of the building was directly adjacent to the surface fault rupture associated with the Chi-chi (Taiwan)
Earthquake on September 21, 1999. Note in this figure that the ground was actually compressed together adja-
cent to the foot wall side of the fault rupture. (
Photograph from the Taiwan Collection, EERC, University of
California, Berkeley.
)
