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Book A Study of Earthquake Losses in the San Francisco Bay Area

Download or read book A Study of Earthquake Losses in the San Francisco Bay Area written by Sylvester Theodore Algermissen and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Earthquakes in the San Francisco Bay Area

Download or read book History of Earthquakes in the San Francisco Bay Area written by Perry Byerly and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 The San Francisco Earthquake

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.

Book The San Francisco Earthquake

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.

Book The Quake of  89

    Book Details:
  • Author : San Francisco Chronicle
  • Publisher : Chronicle Books (CA)
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book The Quake of 89 written by San Francisco Chronicle and published by Chronicle Books (CA). This book was released on 1989 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers photographs, firsthand accounts, and reflections on the lessons to be learned.

Book Scenario for a Magnitude 7 0 Earthquake on the Hayward Fault

Download or read book Scenario for a Magnitude 7 0 Earthquake on the Hayward Fault written by Francis M. Christie and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1997-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a compelling portrayal of a magnitude 7.0 earthquake on the Hayward fault in the San Francisco Bay Area. All aspects of such an earthquake are covered, from the social & economic setting of the San Francisco Bay Area, through the geologic, seismologic, & earthquake engineering issues raised by such a severe earthquake in a heavily urbanized region. Also covers the emergency response & recovery aspects that would challenge the capabilities of Bay Area neighborhoods, organizations, & governments. Photos, maps & tables.

Book The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906

Download or read book The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906 written by Philip L. Fradkin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this well-researched book, Fradkin contends that it was the people of San Francisco, not the forces of nature, who were responsible for the extent of the destruction and death."--"Booklist."

Book A Crack in the Edge of the World

Download or read book A Crack in the Edge of the World written by Simon Winchester and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes, the planet's most sudden and destructive force. In the early morning hours of April 18, 1906, San Francisco and a string of towns to its north-northwest and the south-southeast were overcome by an enormous shaking that was compounded by the violent shocks of an earthquake, registering 8.25 on the Richter scale. The quake resulted from a rupture in a part of the San Andreas fault, which lies underneath the earth's surface along the northern coast of California. Lasting little more than a minute, the earthquake wrecked 490 blocks, toppled a total of 25,000 buildings, broke open gas mains, cut off electric power lines throughout the Bay area, and effectively destroyed the gold rush capital that had stood there for a half century. Perhaps more significant than the tremors and rumbling, which affected a swatch of California more than 200 miles long, were the fires that took over the city for three days, leaving chaos and horror in its wake. The human tragedy included the deaths of upwards of 700 people, with more than 250,000 left homeless. It was perhaps the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States. Simon Winchester brings his inimitable storytelling abilities -- as well as his unique understanding of geology -- to this extraordinary event, exploring not only what happened in northern California in 1906 but what we have learned since about the geological underpinnings that caused the earthquake in the first place. But his achievement is even greater: he positions the quake's significance along the earth's geological timeline and shows the effect it had on the rest of twentieth-century California and American history. A Crack in the Edge of the World is the definitive account of the San Francisco earthquake. It is also a fascinating exploration of a legendary event that changed the way we look at the planet on which we live.

Book Source Characteristics of Events in the San Francisco Bay Region

Download or read book Source Characteristics of Events in the San Francisco Bay Region written by Douglas S. Dreger and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Centennial Field Guides

Download or read book 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Centennial Field Guides written by Carol S. Prentice and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty field trip guides in this volume represent the work of earthquake professionals from the earth science, engineering, and emergency management communities. The guides were developed to cross the boundaries between these professions, and thus reflect this diversity: trips focus on the built environment, the effects of the 1906 earthquake, the San Andreas fault, and other active faults in northern California.