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Figure 20. This ground failure was initiated by ground cracking adjacent t o the banks of the Tacoma Narrows during the 1949 Olympia earthquake; the slide occurred s everal days after the earthquake. The landslide endangered nearby homes and induced strong waves in th e Narrows. (By permission of Wide World Photos, Inc., and Associated Press)

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