The San Francisco Earthquake And Fire Of 1906 The 1989 Bay Area Earthquake

Author : Tim Cooke
Publisher : Gareth Stevens
ISBN 13 : 9780836844948
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1906 San Francisco Earthquake written by Tim Cooke and published by Gareth Stevens. This book was released on 2004-12-30 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A huge earthquake rocked the West Coast on April 18, 1906. Worst hit was the city of San Francisco, where buildings collapsed and fires raged for days. Thousands of people died, and many more were left homeless. The disaster was just one of a long series of earthquakes triggered by the San Andreas Fault. It taught scientists valuable lessons about preparing for earthquakes. Book jacket.

Author : Richard Worth
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438102275
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The San Francisco Earthquake written by Richard Worth and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the earthquake of 1906 in San Francisco, during which fires raged over the city, virtually destroying it.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309050308
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practical Lessons from the Loma Prieta Earthquake written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1994-02-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Loma Prieta earthquake struck the San Francisco area on October 17, 1989, causing 63 deaths and $10 billion worth of damage. This book reviews existing research on the Loma Prieta quake and draws from it practical lessons that could be applied to other earthquake-prone areas of the country. The volume contains seven keynote papers presented at a symposium on the earthquake and includes an overview written by the committee offering recommendations to improve seismic safety and earthquake awareness in parts of the country susceptible to earthquakes.

Author : Malcolm E. Barker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780930235093
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Fearful Days written by Malcolm E. Barker and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Fearful Days is unique among books dealing with San Francisco's 1906 earthquake and fire, because survivors of the tragedy tell their own stories. This volume, now available in hardcover, contains more than 40 narratives culled from letters, diaries, and accounts written at the time. To mark the 100th anniversary of the catastrophe, the survivors voices are heard once again?in many instances for the first time since the dramatic event.

Author : Louise Chipley Slavicek
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438118163
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Of 1906 written by Louise Chipley Slavicek and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the devastating earthquake that struck San Francisco in 1906 and the resulting fires that destroyed a large section of the city.

Author : Gordon Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780812813609
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The San Francisco Earthquake written by Gordon Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moment-by-moment account of the 1906 earthquake and the fire that followed it, using new source material and many eyewitness reports.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earthquakes of the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Francisco X. Alarcón
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
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Download or read book Loma Prieta written by Francisco X. Alarcón and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of these poems first appeared as Quake Poems ... in an effort by the author and Christopher Funkhouser to raise Earthquake Relief funds.

Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781985762480
Total Pages : 148 pages
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Download or read book The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 & the 1989 Bay Area Earthquake written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the disasters made by survivors, firefighters, police officers, and more *Includes bibliographies for further reading *Includes a table of contents On April 18, 1906, most of the residents of the city of San Francisco were sound asleep when the ground started to shake around 5:15 a.m., but what started as fairly soft tremors turned into a violent shaking in all directions. The roar of the earthquake unquestionably woke up residents, at least those fortunate enough not to be immediately swallowed by the cracks opening up in the ground. The earthquake lasted about a minute, but it had enough destructive force to divert the course of entire rivers and level much of the 9th largest city in America at the time. Unfortunately for San Franciscans, the worst was yet to come. During the earthquake, the city's gas mains and water mains were ruptured, which had the effects of starting a number of fires and preventing the residents from being equipped to fight them. Without water to truly fight the blaze, the city's officials actually resorted to demolishing buildings in hopes of containing the fire, and witnesses reported seeing San Franciscans trapped in the burning buildings being shot by authorities instead of letting them burn alive. The fires lasted three days, and by the time they were done, 80% of the city was in ruins, about 60% of the residents were homeless, and an estimated 3,000-6,000 were dead. In fact, the fires were so devastating that contemporary San Franciscans called the disaster "The Fire." Although the resulting fires may have done the most damage, the widespread destruction made clear to city leaders that the new buildings would need better safety codes and protection against subsequent earthquakes. The city reinforced new buildings against earthquakes and fixed older surviving buildings to better deal with future earthquakes, and the city also created the Auxiliary Water Supply System to prevent a repeat of the 1906 disaster. On October 17, 1989, millions of Americans tuning in to watch the Oakland Athletics face the San Francisco Giants in the World Series watched the cameras suddenly start to shake violently for several seconds. The national broadcast had just caught an earthquake registering a 6.9 on the Richter scale striking the Bay Area, and by the time the earthquake and the resulting fires were over and dealt with, over 60 people were dead, making it San Francisco's deadliest earthquake since the 1906 earthquake and fire. The damage and devastation across the Bay Area was widespread, despite the precautions and changes that the region had made in the wake of the 1906 calamity. After that disaster, San Francisco began the process of reinforcing new buildings and seismic retrofitting of old ones to help structures brace for earthquakes, but even in the 1980s they were still more concerned about potential fires resulting from an earthquake. Furthermore, after the earthquake in 1906, San Francisco created an Auxiliary Water Supply System that could distribute water to any section of the city, and the city built it with stringent codes in the event of an earthquake. In fact, just a few years before 1989, San Francisco created a Portable Water Supply System and upgraded the fire departments. San Francisco's water supply systems worked perfectly, quickly allowing firefighters to put out a fire in the Marina District before it spread, but this time the biggest problem was "liquefaction," in which saturated soil literally melted away as it was unable to hold any more liquid. The shaking of the earthquake then created cracks in the liquefied soil, and attempts to protect buildings from the violent movements could not safeguard them from the land melting away from under it. The most noteworthy damage occurred to several sections of highways in the Bay Area that did not hold up during the earthquake.

Author : Grove Karl Gilbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of April 18, 1906 written by Grove Karl Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: