Natural disasters

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Materials include the photographs used in "The Raging Sea." The papers also consist of an advance copies list, signed authorizations to use photos for the book, a guidebook to Redwoods National Park, and a copy of a book published by the USGS entitled "Surviving a Tsunami: Lessons from Chile, Hawaii, and Japan."

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An audiocassette that is labeled "Tsunami 1964 Crescent City, CA."

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The newspaper articles concern tsunami warning systems in the Pacific Northwest.

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The NOAA report "Tsunamis Affecting the West Coast of the United States 1806-1992."

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The NOAA report "United States Tsunamis 1690-1988."

Scope and Contents A collection of government-produced materials, such as reports and informational pamphlets that includes a flood insurance study, tsunami information pamphlets from the Portland Electric Co., NOAA, The US Dept of Commerce, and a leaflet about a seismic warning system. This folder also includes a report of earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest from the 1700s to the present, a National Geophysical Data Center list of tsunamis in the Pacific Northwest since 1854 and a report of the...

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The photographs document the 1964 tsunami in Crescent City, CA. According to handwritten notes, presumably written by Mr. Powers, the pictures were taken by Wally Griffin.