STS-092 Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Debriefing with Crewmembers November 28, 2000

SEISMIC AND VOLCANIC HAZARDS; CITIES

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Mendoza, Argentina sustained extensive damage in 1861 from an earthquake on a buried fault that passes beneath the city. The low hills south of town mark an area where the ground surface is arched over the tip of the fault.

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