ALASKA DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL & GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATION 32

IN COOPERATION WITH THE MUNICIPALITY OF ANCHORAGE WEEMS AND COMBELLICK

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SEISMICALLY INDUCED

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GROUND-FAILURE SUSCEPTIBILITY

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N
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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
Harding-Lawson Associates (1979)
Digitally recompiled with 1993-1994 revised topography
by
S.M. Weems and R.A. Combellick
1997

6110'

6110'

EXPLANATION
Very high ground-failure susceptibility
High ground-failure susceptibility
Moderate ground-failure susceptibility
Moderately low ground-failure susceptibility
Lowest ground-failure susceptibility
SCALE 1:25,000
1 .5 0 KILOMETERS 1 2
1000 0 METERS 1000 2000
1 .5 0 1
MILES
1000 0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 8000 9000 10 000
FEET

TOPOGRAPHIC CONTOUR INTERVAL 5 METERS (WEST) AND 20 METERS (EAST)

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TRUE NORTH
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DECLINATION, 1994

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ANCHORAGE

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KENAI SEWARD

615'

SOURCES:

Harding-Lawson Associates, 1979, Geotechnical hazards assessment study, Municipality of

Anchorage: Harding-Lawson Associates job no. 5502,009.08

Base modified from U.S. Geological Survey Anchorage A-8NE, A-8NW, A-8SE, A-8SW, 615'
and Tyonek A-1NE Quadrangles, 1993 and 1994. Universal Transverse Mercator projection, TU
Zone 6, NAD 27. RN
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