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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
The Turk Street house of Earl Miles survived the earthquake and the subsequent catastrophic fire but the studio did not. The Miles brothers based their business out of Earl's home, and shot more film of post-earthquake scenes; some of this footage, including that of a second trip down a now devastated Market Street, reemerged in 2016. [2] [3 ...
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 ...
On April 18, 1906, San Franciscans were awoken at 5:11 a.m. by what would become the deadliest earthquake in U.S. history.
San Francisco in ruins after the 1906 earthquake and fire. image credit: ... Earthquake October 17, 1989. Oakland. ... German map of San Francisco Bay Area, ca. 1893 ...
The 1906 San Francisco earthquake was the worst in California's history. The death toll was between 700 and 3,000. The subsequent fire resulted in much of the destruction and death toll. 28,188 homes were destroyed. $400 million in damage costs were reported. 700 to 3,000
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.
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 ...