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Author: Victoria Sherrow Publisher: Enslow Publishers ISBN: 9780766010604 Category : Disaster relief Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book looks at the earthquake that struck the San Francisco Bay Area, causing severe damage in San Francisco, Oakland, and surrounding suburbs. The author presents stories of personal triumphs and tragedies in the face of this disaster.
Author: Victoria Sherrow Publisher: Enslow Publishers ISBN: 9780766010604 Category : Disaster relief Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book looks at the earthquake that struck the San Francisco Bay Area, causing severe damage in San Francisco, Oakland, and surrounding suburbs. The author presents stories of personal triumphs and tragedies in the face of this disaster.
Author: Thomas K. McShane Publisher: ISBN: Category : Loma Prieta Earthquake, Calif., 1989 Languages : en Pages :
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Reminiscence (6 leaves) of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, as experienced by McShane from a sports bar in San Francisco. Describes conditions in San Francisco immediately after the earthquake, as well as the following day. Includes two copies.
Author: Francisco X. Alarcón Publisher: ISBN: Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 40
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Some of these poems first appeared as Quake Poems ... in an effort by the author and Christopher Funkhouser to raise Earthquake Relief funds.
Author: Gordon Thomas Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1497658837 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 265
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A “gripping, can’t-put-it-down” chronicle, drawing on eyewitness reports and historical documents, by the New York Times–bestselling authors of Enola Gay (Los Angeles Herald Examiner). It happened at 5:13 a.m. on April 18, 1906, in San Francisco. To this day, it remains one of the worst natural disasters in American history—and this definitive book brings the full story to vivid life. Using previously unpublished documents from insurance companies, the military, and the Red Cross, as well as the stories of those who were there, The San Francisco Earthquake exposes villains and heroes; shows how the political powers tried to conceal the amount of damage caused by the earthquake; reveals how efforts to contain the fire actually spread it instead; and tells how the military executed people without trial. It also features personal stories of people who experienced it firsthand, including the great Italian tenor Enrico Caruso, the banker Amadeo Giannini, the writer-adventurer Jack London, the temperamental star John Barrymore, and the thousands of less famous in their struggle for survival. From the authors of The Day the Bubble Burst, The San Francisco Earthquake is an important look at how the city has handled catastrophe in the past—and how it may handle it in the future.
Author: Amy Tan Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101502738 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 288
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“The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational.” —Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians Amy Tan’s beloved, New York Times bestselling tale of mothers and daughters, now the focus of a new documentary Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir on Netflix Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.
Author: Simon Winchester Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0060572000 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 514
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Unleashed by ancient geologic forces, a magnitude 8.25 earthquake rocked San Francisco in the early hours of April 18, 1906. Less than a minute later, the city lay in ruins. Bestselling author Simon Winchester brings his inimitable storytelling abilities to this extraordinary event, exploring the legendary earthquake and fires that spread horror across San Francisco and northern California in 1906 as well as its startling impact on American history and, just as important, what science has recently revealed about the fascinating subterranean processes that produced it—and almost certainly will cause it to strike again.
Author: Charles River Charles River Editors Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781984999689 Category : Languages : en Pages : 74
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*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the earthquake and aftermath by people across the Bay Area, including policemen, firefighters, and people at the World Series *Includes a bibliography for further reading "I'll tell you what-we're having an earth-" - Al Michaels broadcasting the World Series on ABC as the earthquake struck and before the feed went out "Well folks, that's the greatest open in the history of television, bar none!" - Al Michaels after the ABC feed was restored On October 17, 1989, millions of Americans tuning in to watch the Oakland Athletics face the San Francisco Giants in the World Series watched the cameras suddenly start to shake violently for several seconds. The national broadcast had just caught an earthquake registering a 6.9 on the Richter scale striking the Bay Area, and by the time the earthquake and the resulting fires were over and dealt with, over 60 people were dead, making it San Francisco's deadliest earthquake since the 1906 earthquake and fire. The damage and devastation across the Bay Area was widespread, despite the precautions and changes that the region had made in the wake of the 1906 calamity. After that disaster, San Francisco began the process of reinforcing new buildings and seismic retrofitting of old ones to help structures brace for earthquakes, but even in the 1980s they were still more concerned about potential fires resulting from an earthquake. Furthermore, after the earthquake in 1906, San Francisco created an Auxiliary Water Supply System that could distribute water to any section of the city, and the city built it with stringent codes in the event of an earthquake. In fact, just a few years before 1989, San Francisco created a Portable Water Supply System and upgraded the fire departments. San Francisco's water supply systems worked perfectly, quickly allowing firefighters to put out a fire in the Marina District before it spread, but this time the biggest problem was "liquefaction," in which saturated soil literally melted away as it was unable to hold any more liquid. The shaking of the earthquake then created cracks in the liquefied soil, and attempts to protect buildings from the violent movements could not safeguard them from the land melting away from under it. The most noteworthy damage occurred to several sections of highways in the Bay Area that did not hold up during the earthquake, despite the fact the earthquake in 1906 was much more powerful. A section of the Bay Bridge collapsed, and the double-decker I-880 collapsed at the Cypress Street Viaduct, killing more than 40 people in Oakland. As with the earthquake in 1906, the 1989 earthquake brought about changes in an effort to make the region safer. One immediate reaction by Bay Area leaders was to do away with double-decker highways; while highways like the Bay Bridge were seismically reinforced and retrofitted, I-880 was demolished, as was I-280 and the Central Freeway. Over the next several years, the Bay Area rebuilt and rerouted these highways, which cost billions of dollars. The unfinished double-decker Embarcadero Freeway, which had been approved over 30 years before the earthquake despite stiff resistance, was also demolished. The 1989 Bay Area Earthquake: The Story of San Francisco's Second Deadliest Earthquake chronicles one of the most notorious natural disasters in California's history and one of the most important seismic events on record. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the 1989 Bay Area earthquake like never before, in no time at all.
Author: Victoria Sherrow
Author: Victoria Sherrow
Author: Thomas K. McShane
Author: Francisco X. Alarcón
Author: Gordon Thomas
Author: San Francisco Chronicle
Author: PFBC Basic Research Workshop (1989, San Francisco, Calif.)
Author: Amy Tan
Author: Simon Winchester
Author: Jeff Johnson
Author: Charles River Charles River Editors