Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Mrs. Auto Vogel looks out from the roof of her guest house in the Palos Verdes area to the wreckage of a neighboring house that was wrecked when a giant crescent shaped fissure, about 200 feet long, opened up late 10/26. The fissure, believed caused by two recent earthquakes, split one expensive home in two, slowly cut through a second, and knocked two others off their foundations. There were no injuries as residents had been evacuated earlier.
Mrs. Auto Vogel looks out from the roof of her guest house in the Palos Verdes area to the wreckage of a neighboring house that was wrecked when a giant crescent shaped fissure, about 200 feet long, opened up late 10/26. The fissure, believed caused by two recent earthquakes, split one expensive home in two, slowly cut through a second, and knocked two others off their foundations. There were no injuries as residents had been evacuated earlier.
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Mrs. Auto Vogel looks out from the roof of her guest house in the Palos Verdes area to the wreckage of a neighboring house that was wrecked when a giant crescent shaped fissure, about 200 feet long, opened up late 10/26. The fissure, believed caused by two recent earthquakes, split one expensive home in two, slowly cut through a second, and knocked two others off their foundations. There were no injuries as residents had been evacuated earlier.

United Press International · [ca. October 1969]

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[Information from item housing] Earthquake Misc.

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