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FIGURE 3.55
Tsunami in progress. The site is the village of Kiritoppu, near Kushiro Harbor, Hokkaido,
Japan. The Tokachi-oki earthquake in Japan generated the tsunami on March 4, 1952. (
Photograph from the
Steinbrugge Collection, EERC, University of California, Berkeley.
)
FIGURE 3.56
Tsunami damage caused by the Niigata earthquake in Japan on June 16, 1964. (
Photograph
from the Steinbrugge Collection, EERC, University of California, Berkeley.
)
