San Francisco, the golden gate city, was a popular city in the 1900's as people lived by the bay in a friendly lifestyle. ... On April 18, 1906 a major earthquake hit San Francisco within a one minute span. ... The 18th was an odd day in San Francisco as Laura Pride went to bed at 2am after writing her article for the Chronicle. ... (Davis 60) In Conclusion the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 was a major learning experience as others were getting hurt. ... The historical event of this time gave many new findings to San Francisco and the whole United States. ...

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December 5, 2001 San Andreas Fault Introduction The San Andreas Fault is a geologic fault zone between two tectonic plates that runs from San Francisco south to San Diego in California. ... It is so called because it runs along the San Andreas Valley. The San Andreas fault was brought dramatically to world attention in 1906 when sudden displacement along the fault produced the great San Francisco earthquake and fire. ... Many smaller faults branch from and join the San Andreas fault zone. ... We understand that the Los Angeles Basin is being broadly compressed from north to...

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San Francisco G Enterprise has selected 4 locations San Francisco, Iceland, Hawaii, and Tokyo as possibilities to place the factory complex, Brel Incorporated has researched all 4 locations and came up with the most dangerous one. Brel Incorporated has chosen San Francisco as the most dangerous place to put G Enterprise because San Francisco hasn't had a major earthquake since 1906. ... San Francisco has had 631 earthquakes in the past 365 days with a magnitude of 1.5 or greater. ... These effects will damage San Francisco and the people living there. ... Iceland was the second safest pl...

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Loma Prieta Earthquake At 5:04 PM on October 17, 1989, the San Francisco Bay Area was severely shaken for 15 seconds by the Loma Prieta earthquake located to the south on the San Andreas fault near Santa Cruz. Although the quake did not tear the ground surface, it collapsed some buildings and freeway overpasses built upon the soft "bayfill" sediment in San Francisco and Oakland. ... The Loma Prieta quake was the largest earthquake to occur in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1906, and the largest, at the time, anywhere in California since 1952. ... A section of the San Francisco-Oakland ...

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Plate Tectonics In the beginning the earth was not as it is today. It was one continent called Pangaea. Over the years the continents drifted apart, hence the continental drift theory. The reason why the continents started to drift apart was because of the plates that the continents are lying...

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California Earthquakes In 1989, a major earthquake devastated business and residential sections of San Francisco and the surrounding area, destroying a section of the Bay Bridge and an elevated freeway and killing over 75 people. ... Although the major earthquakes have been in the San Francisco area so far this century, residents of Los Angeles must ask what the effects on the over 2 million people living in our urban area would be. ... TRANSFORMATION A good example of this type of motion is the San Andreas Fault, which runs through California. ...

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The earthquake was centered about 60 miles south of San Francisco and could be felt as far away as San Diego. This earthquake was the first major event to occur along the San Andreas Fault zone since 1906. ... The Loma Prieta earthquake was unique because the type of seismic movement wasn't typical of the San Andres Fault system. ... This type of motion is not typical of the San Andreas Fault and suggests that the earthquake occurred on a sub-parallel fault and not on the San Andreas itself. The potential for a damaging earthquake on the San Andreas Fault system in the Santa Cruz Mount...

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At 5:04 P.M. pacific daylight time, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake occurred on the San Andreas Fault 10 miles northeast of Santa Cruz. ... The 20-second earthquake was felt as far away as San Diego and Western Nevada. This earthquake was the largest to occur in the San Francisco Bay area since 1906 and the largest anywhere in California since 1952. ... Damage and business interruption estimates reached as high as $10 billion, which directed damage estimate as $6.8 billion (Gorgan & Vallerga 1). $2 billion of that amount is for San Francisco alone and Santa Cruz officials estimate that damage to th...

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An example being San Francisco, an area with high risk of earthquakes, applies the three p's (Barberi, 1996); Prediction (using seismometers), prevention (building earthquake proof buildings) and preparation (educating people and evacuation drills).This shows that despite the inevitability of an earthquake occurring that their society actively decided to act to limit damage and deaths. ...

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