1906 the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
- ISBN-10
- 1594534152
- ISBN-13
- 9781594534157
- Category
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005-09
- Publisher
- Bookman Publishing & Marketing
- Author
- Darrell Heppner
Description
On April 16th, 2006, San Francisco and the world will remember and celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire! It was an awesome event for its time and place. The 1906 Earthquake measured 8.25 on the Richter Scale and lasted around a minute and a half. In was 50 times more powerful than the 1989 World Series Earthquake which measured a mere 6.7 and lasted only 15 seconds. One must remember that the Richter Scale is logarithmic to the base of ten; in other words, 8.25 is 10 times more powerful than 7.25 and 100 times more powerful than 6.25! The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake was one of the most powerful ever measured anywhere on the Earth. The damage was so severe and the displacement of the Earth so great that seismologists were forced to fundamentally change their theories of the destruction potential of earthquakes and the faults which cause them. In places, the ground moved as much as 18 feet horizontally. This book tells the story in works and full page photographs. In Chapter One, you will see the City as it was before the earthquake. Chapter Two is the earth in agony and the sky burning. Chapter Three features side by side photos of major buildings before the events and after them. Chapter Four is the City rising from the ashes and the rebuilding of the City. All of the photographs come from albums and glass negatives in the author's collection. The albums were collected by his wife, Anne, many years ago while living in San Francisco. The box of 68 original glass negatives were discovered by the author about five years at an Alameda flea market one Sunday morning. This Centennial Edition contains 116 full page photographs.
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