Author: Publisher:
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire 1906; Excerpts from San Francisco Municipal Reports for the Fiscal Year 1905-6, Ending June 30, 1906 and Fiscal Year 1906-7, Ending June 30, 1907
Author: Excerpts from San Francisco Municipal Reports for the Fiscal Year 1905-6, Ending June 30, 1906, and Fiscal Year 1906-7, Ending June 30, 1907. Published by Order of the Board of Supervisors ... 1908
Author: Excerpts from San Francisco Municipal Reports for the Fiscal Year 1905-6
Author: San Francisco (Calif.). Board of SupervisorsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 797
Book Description
San Francisco Municipal Reports
Author: San Francisco Board of SupervisorPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780260758347
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description
Excerpt from San Francisco Municipal Reports: For the Fiscal Year 1905-6, Ending June 30, 1906 and Fiscal Year 1906-7, Ending June 30, 1907 Treasurer in Cash Account With the Auditor for moneys Belonging to the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, for the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 1906. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Bracing for Disaster
Author: Stephen TobrinerPublisher: Heyday.ORIM
ISBN: 1597143286
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
“The first history of seismic engineering in San Francisco . . . spiced with survivor and eyewitness accounts. ”—Midwest Book Review For the past one hundred and fifty years, architects and engineers have quietly been learning from each quake and designing newer earthquake-resistant building techniques and applying them in an ongoing effort to save San Francisco. Bracing for Disaster is a fresh appraisal of a city responding to repeated devastation. In the language of a skilled teacher, Tobriner examines what really happened during the city’s earthquakes—which buildings were damaged, which survived, and who were the unsung heroes. Filled with more than two hundred photographs, diagrams, and illustrations, this is a revealing look at the history of buildings by a true expert, and it offers lessons not just for San Francisco but for any city beset by natural disasters. “The real saga is how a fast-growing city grapples with the reality that it has more to worry about than fires and fog. The core of the story is fairly technical, rooted in the crude intuitive ways in which builders reacted to a seismic threat they could neither measure nor define. But Tobriner crafts the story well.”—SFGate
The Longest Minute
Author: Matthew J. DavenportPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250279283
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Matthew J. Davenport’s The Longest Minute is the spellbinding true story of the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco, and how a great earthquake sparked a devastating and preventable firestorm. At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco, catching most of the city asleep. For approximately one minute, shockwaves buckled streets, shattered water mains, collapsed buildings, crushed hundreds of residents to death and trapped many alive. Fires ignited and blazed through dry wooden ruins and grew into a firestorm. For the next three days, flames devoured collapsed ruins, killed trapped survivors, and nearly destroyed what was then the largest city in the American West. Meticulously researched and gracefully written, The Longest Minute is both a harrowing chronicle of devastation and the portrait of a city’s resilience in the burning aftermath of greed and folly. Drawing on the letters and diaries and unpublished memoirs of survivors and previously unearthed archival records, Matthew Davenport combines history and science to tell the dramatic true story of one of the greatest disasters in American history.
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire 1906
Author: San Francisco (Calif.). Board of SupervisorsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Earthquake Spectra
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquake engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
San Francisco Municipal Reports for the Fiscal Year ...
Author: San Francisco (Calif.). Board of SupervisorsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 1304
Book Description
Library of Congress Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Beginning with 1953, entries for Motion pictures and filmstrips, Music and phonorecords form separate parts of the Library of Congress catalogue. Entries for Maps and atlases were issued separately 1953-1955.