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Book Earthquake 7 1  San Francisco Bay Area  October 17  1989

Download or read book Earthquake 7 1 San Francisco Bay Area October 17 1989 written by and published by Lta Pub.. This book was released on 1989 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs and news reports document the destruction caused by the October 17th earthquake in the San Francisco Bay area.

Book Practical Lessons from the Loma Prieta Earthquake

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.

Book The Loma Prieta  California  Earthquake of October 17  1989  Highway Systems

Download or read book The Loma Prieta California Earthquake of October 17 1989 Highway Systems written by Mark Yashinsky and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Remaking the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge

Download or read book Remaking the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge written by Karen Trapenberg Frick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of TransportiCA’s September Book Club Award 2018 On 17 October 1989 one the largest earthquakes to occur in California since the San Francisco earthquake of April 1906 struck Northern California. Damage was extensive, none more so than the partial collapse of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge’s eastern span, a vital link used by hundreds of thousands of Californians every day. The bridge was closed for a month for repairs and then reopened to traffic. But what ensued over the next 25 years is the extraordinary story that Karen Trapenberg Frick tells here. It is a cautionary tale to which any governing authority embarking on a megaproject should pay heed. She describes the process by which the bridge was eventually replaced as an exercise in shadowboxing which pitted the combined talents and shortcomings, partnerships and jealousies, ingenuity and obtuseness, generosity and parsimony of the State’s and the region’s leading elected officials, engineers, architects and other members of the governing elites against a collectively imagined future catastrophe of unknown proportions. In so doing she highlights three key questions: If safety was the reason to replace the bridge, why did it take almost 25 years to do so? How did an original estimate of $250 million in 1995 soar to $6.5 billion by 2014? And why was such a complex design chosen? Her final chapter – part epilogue, part reflection – provides recommendations to improve megaproject delivery and design.

Book The Loma Prieta  California  Earthquake of October 17  1989

Download or read book The Loma Prieta California Earthquake of October 17 1989 written by Malcolm J. S. Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The 1989 Bay Area Earthquake

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-02-03
  • ISBN : 9781984999689
  • Pages : 74 pages

Download or read book The 1989 Bay Area Earthquake written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the earthquake and aftermath by people across the Bay Area, including policemen, firefighters, and people at the World Series *Includes a bibliography for further reading "I'll tell you what-we're having an earth-" - Al Michaels broadcasting the World Series on ABC as the earthquake struck and before the feed went out "Well folks, that's the greatest open in the history of television, bar none!" - Al Michaels after the ABC feed was restored 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, despite the fact the earthquake in 1906 was much more powerful. A section of the Bay Bridge collapsed, and the double-decker I-880 collapsed at the Cypress Street Viaduct, killing more than 40 people in Oakland. As with the earthquake in 1906, the 1989 earthquake brought about changes in an effort to make the region safer. One immediate reaction by Bay Area leaders was to do away with double-decker highways; while highways like the Bay Bridge were seismically reinforced and retrofitted, I-880 was demolished, as was I-280 and the Central Freeway. Over the next several years, the Bay Area rebuilt and rerouted these highways, which cost billions of dollars. The unfinished double-decker Embarcadero Freeway, which had been approved over 30 years before the earthquake despite stiff resistance, was also demolished. The 1989 Bay Area Earthquake: The Story of San Francisco's Second Deadliest Earthquake chronicles one of the most notorious natural disasters in California's history and one of the most important seismic events on record. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the 1989 Bay Area earthquake like never before, in no time at all.

Book The Loma Prieta  California  Earthquake of October 17  1989

Download or read book The Loma Prieta California Earthquake of October 17 1989 written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The October 17  1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake

Download or read book The October 17 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lessons Learned from the Loma Prieta  California  Earthquake of October 17  1989

Download or read book Lessons Learned from the Loma Prieta California Earthquake of October 17 1989 written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Loma Prieta  California  Earthquake of October 17  1989

Download or read book The Loma Prieta California Earthquake of October 17 1989 written by Anshel J. Schiff and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book San Francisco Earthquake  1989

Download or read book San Francisco Earthquake 1989 written by Victoria Sherrow and published by Enslow Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the earthquake that struck the San Francisco Bay Area, causing severe damage in San Francisco, Oakland, and surrounding suburbs. The author presents stories of personal triumphs and tragedies in the face of this disaster.

Book Reflections on the October 17  1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake

Download or read book Reflections on the October 17 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake written by Structural Engineers Association of California. Ad Hoc Earthquake Reconnaissance Committee and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Structural Engineers Association of California recently published, Reflections on the Loma Prieta Earthquake of October 17, 1989. The 184 page document features photographs, graphs & charts which include observations made by an Ad Hoc Earthquake Reconnaissance Committee composed of members from the four local associations. Recommendations to improve future codes & emergency response to earthquakes are given. The report may be purchased from the: Structural Engineers Association of California, P. O. Box 19440, Sacramento, CA 95819-0440. Phone: (916) 427-3647. Price: $40.00 plus 3.50 Handling & Postage.

Book A C D C  Post Disaster Management Seminar

Download or read book A C D C Post Disaster Management Seminar written by and published by . This book was released on 199? with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Once and Future Quake

Download or read book The Once and Future Quake written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: