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FIGURE 3.33
Damage on Port Island caused by retaining wall movement during the Kobe earthquake on
January 17, 1995. (
Photograph from the Kobe Geotechnical Collection, EERC, University of California,
Berkeley.
)
FIGURE 3.34
Collapse of a crane due to about 2 m of lateral movement of the retaining wall on Rokko
Island. There was also about 1 to 2 m of settlement behind the retaining wall when it moved outward during
the Kobe earthquake on January 17, 1995. (
Photograph from the Kobe Geotechnical Collection, EERC,
University of California, Berkeley.
)
