Multiple Choice
How was the Turnagain Heights area of Anchorage, Alaska, damaged during the 1964 earthquake?
A) Rioting by frenzied inhabitants in Anchorage's worst slum area.
B) A weak, subsurface, clay layer failed, resulting in numerous rotational landslides.
C) It burned in a fire set off by broken gas lines.
D) It was hit by a large tsunami and then buried by a rock avalanche.
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