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Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897–1916 – American Memory at the Library of Congress; A geologic tour of the San Francisco earthquake, 100 years later – American Geological Institute; The Great 1906 Earthquake and Fire – Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco website
Willard Elmer Worden (November 20, 1868-September 6, 1946) was an American photographer active in the San Francisco Bay Area in the first decades of the 1900s. Trained as an artist and self-taught as a photographer, he attained recognition with his photographs documenting the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
In 1906, its population doubled with refugees made homeless after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Concurrently, a strong City Beautiful movement , promoted by Mayor Frank Kanning Mott , was responsible for creating and preserving parks and monuments in Oakland, including major improvements to Lake Merritt and the construction of ...
This is a list of earthquakes in 1906. Only magnitude 6.0 or greater earthquakes appear on the list. Exceptions to this are earthquakes that caused death, injury, or damage. Events in remote areas are excluded from the list as they were not significantly documented. All dates are listed according to GMT time. In 1906, there were several ...
1906 – April 18: San Francisco earthquake; refugees flee to Oakland. [6] 1907 – California School of Arts and Crafts founded. [6] 1909 Samuel Merritt College founded. Moore & Scott Iron Works in business. 1910 Oakland Public Museum and YMCA open. Population: 150,174. 1912 – Oakland School Women's Club [9] and Children's Hospital founded.
On April 18, 1906, San Franciscans were awoken at 5:11 a.m. by what would become the deadliest earthquake in U.S. history.
Both the 1857 and 1906 earthquakes were somewhere around magnitude 7.8. In the largest of the Ridgecrest earthquakes in 2019 , there were about 2 feet of fault offset for the magnitude 7.1 quake ...
This was the last major fire in the city before bombing of WW II. 1327 – Fire of Munich, Germany, destroys one-third of the city, 30 deaths. 1405 – Fire of Bern, Switzerland, destroys 600 houses, over 100 deaths. 1421 – First Great Fire of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 1426 – Hanyang fires in Joseon [3]