Author: Hermann SchusslerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The Water Supply of San Francisco, California, Before, During and After the Earthquake of April 18th, 1906
Author: Hermann SchusslerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The Water Supply Of San Francisco, California, Before, During And After The Earthquake Of April 18th, 1906: And The Subsequent Conflagration
Author: Hermann SchusslerPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016901710
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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The Water Supply of San Francisco, California, Before, During and After the Earthquake of April 18th, 1906, and the Subsequent Conflagration
Author: Hermann SchusslerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The California Earthquake of April 18, 1906
Author: California. State Earthquake Investigation CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
1906 San Francisco Earthquake Centennial Field Guides
Author: Carol S. PrenticePublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813700078
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The twenty field trip guides in this volume represent the work of earthquake professionals from the earth science, engineering, and emergency management communities. The guides were developed to cross the boundaries between these professions, and thus reflect this diversity: trips focus on the built environment, the effects of the 1906 earthquake, the San Andreas fault, and other active faults in northern California.
Reports on an Auxilary Water Supply System for Fire Protection for San Francisco, California
Author: San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fire extinction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The California Earthquake of April 18, 1906
Author: California. State Earthquake Investigation CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
A Study of Earthquake Losses in the San Francisco Bay Area
Author: Sylvester Theodore AlgermissenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906
Author: Philip L. FradkinPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520230606
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
"In this well-researched book, Fradkin contends that it was the people of San Francisco, not the forces of nature, who were responsible for the extent of the destruction and death."--"Booklist."
California Earthquakes
Author: Carl-Henry GeschwindPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801873606
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Winner of the Book Prize of the Forum for the History of Science in America from the History of Science Society In 1906, after an earthquake wiped out much of San Francisco, leading California officials and scientists described the disaster as a one-time occurrence and assured the public that it had nothing to worry about. California Earthquakes explains how, over time, this attitude changed, and Californians came to accept earthquakes as a significant threat, as well as to understand how science and technology could reduce this threat. Carl-Henry Geschwind tells the story of the small group of scientists and engineers who—in tension with real estate speculators and other pro-growth forces, private and public—developed the scientific and political infrastructure necessary to implement greater earthquake awareness. Through their political connections, these reformers succeeded in building a state apparatus in which regulators could work together with scientists and engineers to reduce earthquake hazards. Geschwind details the conflicts among scientists and engineers about how best to reduce these risks, and he outlines the dramatic twentieth-century advances in our understanding of earthquakes—their causes and how we can try to prepare for them. Tracing the history of seismology and the rise of the regulatory state and of environmental awareness, California Earthquakes tells how earthquake-hazard management came about, why some groups assisted and others fought it, and how scientists and engineers helped shape it.
