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English: A building destroyed by the 1906 earthquake, identified elsewhere as the Occidental Hotel, Fifth Street, Santa Rosa. Sonoma State University Library, Rohnert Park, California. Box 11 no. 8
The resulting work fed the general public's fascination for sensationalist content, but was also of interest to seismologists, architects, and urban planners, as evidenced by inclusion of his photos in The California Earthquake of April 18, 1906: Report of the State Earthquake Investigation Commission, published by the Carnegie Institution of ...
The earliest known earthquake in the U.S. state of California was documented in 1769 by the Spanish explorers and Catholic missionaries of the Portolá expedition as they traveled northward from San Diego along the Santa Ana River near the present site of Los Angeles. Ship captains and other explorers also documented earthquakes.
The U.S. Geological Survey reported that a magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred off the coast of Northern California about 10:44 a.m. PT about 60 miles offshore of Ferndale, California.
A month after the legislation was introduced, the 1906 earthquake destroyed most of downtown Santa Rosa. As a result, the Santa Rosa Post Office operated temporarily out of Jenkins Grocery, surrounded by wreckage and debris. Local hop dealer, C.C. Donovan, wrote to James Knox Taylor, Supervising Architect of Federal Buildings, asking him to ...
On April 18, 1906, San Franciscans were awoken at 5:11 a.m. by what would become the deadliest earthquake in U.S. history.
On Friday, at 10:26 a.m., a magnitude 3.6 earthquake — down from an original estimate of 3.8 — occurred with an epicenter just north of the Ojai Valley, causing weak shaking to be felt from ...
1933 Long Beach earthquake; 1940 El Centro earthquake; 1948 Desert Hot Springs earthquake; 1952 Kern County earthquake; 1954 Eureka earthquake; 1957 San Francisco earthquake; 1968 Borrego Mountain earthquake; 1969 Santa Rosa earthquakes; 1971 San Fernando earthquake; 1973 Point Mugu earthquake; 1975 Oroville earthquake; 1978 Santa Barbara ...