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Collapsed house in the Marina district
from Remembering Loma Prieta in Great Shakes

San Francisco's Marina district—built on filled marshland—experienced several building failures such as this one, in which a three-story house collapsed into a single story.
Photo: KGO-TV News/ABC-7




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