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The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 1st Edition by Louise Chipley Slavicek ISBN 0791096505 978-0791096505

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Author(s): Louise Chipley Slavicek
ISBN(s): 9780791096505, 0791096505
Edition: 1°
File Details: PDF, 7.45 MB
Year: 2008
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0791096505

ISBN 13: 978-0791096505 

Author: Louise Chipley Slavicek 

At approximately 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, a powerful earthquake ripped through the city of San Francisco. Roadways rose and fell like ocean waves. Crumbling walls and chimneys rained glass and bricks onto sidewalks and streets, and crowded rooming houses suddenly vanished into heaps of splintered wood. Yet San Francisco’s ordeal had only begun. The violent trembling of the ground had hardly stilled when dozens of fires sparked by damaged chimneys and severed gas lines ignited throughout the stricken city. By April 21st, the fires were finally brought under control, but the city had lost nearly 30,000 buildings to the earthquake and ensuing blazes, half of its population was homeless, and some 3,000 were dead. Until Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast in 2005, the San Francisco calamity of 1906 was the worst natural disaster in U.S. history.

Table of contents:

1: San Francisco on the Eve of Disaster
2: Wednesday, April 18, 1906, 5:12 A.M.
3: Earthquake Science in 1906 and Today
4: San Francisco in Flames
5: The Battle for San Francisco Continues
6: Coping with the Catastrophe
7: Rebuilding
8: Into the Future

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