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Title: COLLAPSE OF A FREEWAY
Caption: (b) Upper deck of the Nimitz Freeway collapsed onto lower deck in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The road level for the lower deck was approximately at the level of the break in the concrete column. (Courtesy of Dennis Laduzinski)
Keywords: earthquakes, earthquake damage, destruction, soils, sediments, strike-slip faults