Earthquake Damage to Schools

The following images are from NOAA’s image collection. For further details on each image, click the PDF at the bottom of the page.

Damage at Charleston College, South Carolina (1886)

Damage to library at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California (1906)

Damage to chapel at Stanford University (1906)

Damage to high school at Three Forks, Montana (1925)

Damage to school at Manhattan, Montana (1925)

Collapse of school, Long Beach, California, earthquake (1933)

Crumbled walls of high school in Long Beach, California (1933)

Damage to Helena, Montana, high school (1935)

Collapsed school in Kern County, California (1952)

Collapse of stone entry at elementary school, Hebgen Lake, Montana (1959)

School split by slumping ground, Alaska earthquake (1964)

Damage to school, Veracruz, Mexico, earthquake (1973)

Damage to school, Lima, Peru, earthquake (1974)

Damage to school, Lice, Turkey, earthquake (1975)

Damage to school, Esmeraldas, Ecuador, earthquake (1976)

Collapse of school, Tangshan, China, earthquake (1976)

Damage to school, Cadoux, Australia, earthquake (1979)

Collapsed school, El Asnam, Algeria, earthquake (1980)

Interior damage to school, Coalinga, California, earthquake (1983)

Interior collapse at school, Spitak, Armenia, earthquake (1988)

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