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.