1906 San Francisco earthquake

1906 San Francisco earthquake

The USGS estimates that the earthquake measured a powerful 7.9 on the moment magnitude scale. The earthquake caused ruptures visible on the surface for a length of 470 kilometers (290 miles). Modified Mercalli Intensities of VII to IX paralleled the length of the rupture, extending as far as 80 kilometers inland from the fault trace.Fact|date=June 2008

ee also

*Loma Prieta earthquake (1989)

Notes

References

* "Double Cone Quarterly", Fall Equinox, volume VII, Number 3 (2004).
* Eastwood, Alice, "The Coniferae of the Santa Lucia Mountains".
* Lawson, Andrew C., "The California Earthquake of April 18, 1906". Report of the State Earthquake Investigation Commission, Carnegie Institution of Washington, available online at [http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/nca/1906/18april/references.php this USGS webpage] .
* Morris, Charles. " [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1560 The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and fire] ." World Bible House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1906.
* Reid, H. F., "The Mechanics of the Earthquake", Vol. 2 in "The California Earthquake of April 18, 1906". Report of the State Investigation Commission, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1910.
* Winchester, Simon, "A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906". HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 2005.

External links

* [http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/sf-earthquake-and-fire/ The 1906 Earthquake and Fire] from the National Archives
* [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/04/0413_060413_earthquake.html San Francisco's 1906 Quake: What If It Struck Today?] nationalgeographic.com, April 13, 2006
* [http://www.geotimes.org/apr06/Travels0406.html A geologic tour of the San Francisco earthquake, 100 years later] from American Geological Institute
* [http://sanfrancisco-1906.t83.net San Francisco Earthquake] Flash website with information for students.
* [http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906/06.html The Great 1906 Earthquake and Fire] from the Museum of the City of San Francisco website
* [http://www.sfdph.org/1906/default.htm Looking Back at the Public's Health] , from the San Francisco Department of Public Health's website
* [http://sfpl.org/librarylocations/sfhistory/equake-browse.htm The Great 1906 Earthquake and Fire] Browse images from the San Francisco Public Library's Historical Photograph Collection
* [http://www.sfgate.com/greatquake/ The San Francisco Chronicle's special report on the earthquake.]
* [http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/earthquakeandfire/index2.html The Great 1906 Earthquake and Fire] from the Bancroft Library, includes interactive maps and panoramas.
* [http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/info/1906/ 1906 San Francisco Quake] and [http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1135/ Intensity Maps for that earthquake] , from the U.S. Geological Survey site
* [http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=mediatype%3Amovies%20AND%20collection%3Aprelinger%20AND%20%2Fmetadata%2Fsubject%3A%22Earthquakes%3A%20San%20Francisco%2C%201906%22 Several videos of the aftermath] , from the Internet Archive website
* [http://www.rtpnet.org/robroy/lawrence/landscape.html San Francisco in Ruins] , Aerial Photographs of George R. Lawrence, reprinted from "Landscape", Vol. 30, No. 2
* [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/California/San_Francisco/_Texts/SFH/home.html The San Francisco Horror] , a book published weeks after the event
* [http://www.jbmonaco.com JB Monaco Photography] , Images of the 1906 SF Earthquake from the well-known North Beach photographer
* [http://www.lib.byu.edu/dlib/irvine/ Edith Irvine Collection] : Photographs of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
* [http://businessimagegroup.com/sfimages/history/EarthQuake1906.html Collection of 1906 Earthquake photography]
* [http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/nca/1906/simulations/ USGS 1906 Ground Motion Simulations]
** [http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/nca/1906/simulations/movies/sf1906plan.mov Simulation of Mercalli Scale ground motion presented as a 75 second animation] (Low-Res Quicktime)
** [http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/nca/1906/simulations/movies/sf1906plan_hires.mov Simulation of Mercalli Scale ground motion presented as a 75 second animation] (High-Res Quicktime)
* [http://www.clements.umich.edu/Exhibits/s.f.earthquake/leslies.html The San Francisco earthquake in Leslie's Weekly]
* [http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906.2/hopkins.html Report on the destruction of the Mark Hopkins institute of art in the earthquake]
* [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/19/BAG52PBENK1.DTL Herbert Hamrol, 104, one of the last survivors of 1906 earthquake]
* [http://www.winternet.com/~rwhenn/quake.htm What happened to the Chinese and Chinatown in the 1906 earthquake, by Ralph Henn]
* [http://content.cdlib.org/search?brand=eqf&style=eqf&text-join=or&fieldList=text+keywords&relation=bancroft.berkeley.edu+collections+earthquakeandfire&keyword=santa+rosa&publisher=/ Bancroft Library] , Collection of Photographs and Newspaper Documents showing the destruction of Santa Rosa in the earthquake.
* SMU's [http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/all/cul/ssm Sulphur Springs Collection of Pre-Nickelodeon Films] contains [http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/ssm nine Pre-Nickelodeon movies] , including [http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=any&CISOBOX1=earthquake&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOROOT=%2Fssm seven Edison films] depicting the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужно сделать НИР?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Séisme de 1906 (San Francisco) — Tremblement de terre de 1906 à San Francisco Tremblement de terre de San Francisco Carte de l intensité extrapolée[1] Date 18 …   Wikipédia en Français

  • San Francisco earthquake of 1906 —  major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.9 that occurred on April 18, 1906, at 5:12 AM off the northern California coast. The San Andreas Fault slipped along a segment about 270 miles (430 km) long, extending from San Juan Bautista in San Benito… …   Universalium

  • San Francisco (disambiguation) — San Francisco, the Spanish language name for St. Francis, commonly refers to: San Francisco, California. Other meanings include:In geography: *Argentina ** San Francisco, Córdoba *Colombia **San Francisco, Antioquia **San Francisco, Putumayo… …   Wikipedia

  • San Francisco Municipal Railway — Info Owner City and County of San Francisco Locale San Francisco …   Wikipedia

  • San Francisco-Erdbeben von 1906 — Ausgebrannte Ruinen in San Francisco nach dem Beben. Das San Francisco Erdbeben von 1906 erschütterte die Küste Nordkaliforniens am 18. April 1906 und gilt als eine der schlimmsten Naturkatastrophen in der Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten. In… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • San-Francisco-Erdbeben von 1906 — Ausgebrannte Ruinen in San Francisco nach dem Beben. Das San Francisco Erdbeben von 1906 erschütterte die Küste Nordkaliforniens am 18. April 1906 und gilt als eine der schlimmsten Naturkatastrophen in der Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten. In… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • San Francisco — This article is about the city and county in California. For other uses, see San Francisco (disambiguation). San Francisco   City and county   City and County of San Francisco …   Wikipedia

  • San Francisco, California — Infobox Settlement official name = City and County of San Francisco nickname = The City by the Bay, The CityFact|date=October 2008, Frisco, [cite news last = Sullivan | first = James title = Frisco, that once verboten term for the city by the bay …   Wikipedia

  • San Francisco (California) — City and County of San Francisco San Francisco Ciudad condado consolidada de los Estados Unidos …   Wikipedia Español

  • San Francisco (film) — Infobox Film name = San Francisco caption = original film poster director = Woody Van Dyke producer = John Emerson Bernard H. Hyman writer = Robert E. Hopkins starring = Clark Gable Jeanette MacDonald Spencer Tracy music = Walter Jurmann… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”