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290 BERBERIAN AND TCHALENKOface. Examples of tombstone movement are given in figure 15 and their locations areshown in figure 17. A number of tombstones (not included in the above account) werealso tilted sideways, generally to the N or the S and often without any visible displacementof the block on its slab, probably as a result of foundation failure under the slab.The Khosrova cemetery is located about 4km from the earthquake fault, the latterbeing oriented NW-SE and of right-lateral displacement with the NE side downthrown.By an unusual coincidence, Zayia, the eyewitness of the main shock, not only observedthe displaced tombstones in Khosrova the morning after the earthquake, but actuallyFig. 11. $. Vartan (near Mallaam). The church was destroyed by the earthquake and later rebuiltcompletely.

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