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- Date: 1906
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Image 2 of After earthquake and fire, Book 3^/74$-
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- Date: 1906
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- Date: 1906
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Image 7 of After earthquake and fire, After Earthquake and Fire A Reprint of the Articles AND EDITORIAL COMMENT APPEARING IN THE Mining and Scientific Press IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE DISASTER AT San Francisco, April 18, 1906 FIRST EDITION FIRST...
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- Date: 1906
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- Date: 1906
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Image 9 of After earthquake and fire, CONTENTS Preface T. A. Rickard 5 Facsimile of Issue of April 21 7 Editorial 9 The Earthquake 20 The Earthquake Commission 29 The Cause and Nature of Earthquakes G. K. Gilbert 32...
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- Date: 1906
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- Date: 1906
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Image 11 of After earthquake and fire, Our Offices at 330 Market Street, San Francisco.
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- Date: 1906
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- Date: 1906
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Image 13 of After earthquake and fire, PREFACE This little book commemorates an experience which we shared with our neighbors. It is a tribute to the loyalty of our staff and to the goodwill of our friends. We give...
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- Date: 1906
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- Date: 1906
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Image 15 of After earthquake and fire, M INING and Scientific P RESS Whole No. 2387, VOLUME XCII. Science has no enemy save the ignorant, MINING and SCIENTIFIC PRESS ESTABLISHED MAY 24. ished Every Saturday at Berkeley. Calil EDITED...
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- Date: 1906
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- Date: 1906
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Image 17 of After earthquake and fire, EDITORIAL. April 28, 1906. As stated in bur last issue, the offices of this journal are now at Berkeley, where we have secured an excellent suite of rooms in the First National...
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- Date: 1906
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Image 18 of After earthquake and fire, 10 AFTER EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE. The value of a self-contained machine or complete unit is strikingly proved by the timely service given by the motor car during the conflagration. It is true...
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- Date: 1906
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- Date: 1906
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Image 20 of After earthquake and fire, 12 AFTER EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE. ernor of the State to gather evidence dealing with recent events, and we give an account of the proceedings at the first two sessions of the Commission....
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- Date: 1906
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Image 21 of After earthquake and fire, EDITORIAL. 13 in Oakland, and as a consequence the number and frequency of special editions hawked by a multitude of small boys, gave Oakland the appearance of a town given up to...
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- Date: 1906
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Image 22 of After earthquake and fire, 14 AFTER EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE. Peak in northern California, 170 miles from San Francisco. The forest that was buried by the scoria is still in evidence and it is estimated that the...
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- Date: 1906
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Image 23 of After earthquake and fire, EDITORIAL. 15 ances. Within half an hour after the earthquake shock, a hump of dark smoke appeared over the City, growing during the succeeding hours until it rose through the quiet air...
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- Date: 1906
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Image 24 of After earthquake and fire, 16 AFTER EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE. tisers, but during the period of stress that followed the great conflagration, we were brought into closer touch with our clients on the business side of this...
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- Date: 1906
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Image 26 of After earthquake and fire, 18 AFTER EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE. the University itself, and followed by a number of professional and business men who had offices across the Bay in San Francisco. The facilities for going from...
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- Date: 1906
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Image 27 of After earthquake and fire, Map of the Bay of San Francisco. Dotted Line Indicates the Earthquake Fault.
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- Date: 1906
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Image 28 of After earthquake and fire, THE EARTHQUAKE. An experience such as that undergone a few hours ago by those who dwell on the shores of the Bay of San Francisco is apt to emphasize the fact that...
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- Date: 1906
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Image 29 of After earthquake and fire, THE EARTHQUAKE. 21 ing rock. Thus the Charleston disaster, in 1886, was intensi- fied by the fact that the Southern city stands upon sand and other deposits soft enough to propagate vibrations....
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- Date: 1906
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Image 30 of After earthquake and fire, 22 AFTER EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE. sibly, from a different cause in localities far removed from evident terrestrial disturbance. To the miner they serve as an object lesson to bring home the fact...
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- Date: 1906
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Image 31 of After earthquake and fire, THE EARTHQUAKE. 23 places several hundred miles distant from any volcanic vent. The active volcanoes nearest to San Francisco are those in Alaska. In volcanic countries in Central America, in New Zealand...
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- Date: 1906
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Image 32 of After earthquake and fire, 24 AFTER EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE. ascent of the water when it comes within the deep zone of high pressure and high temperature, so that an outlet is sought along the edge of...
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- Date: 1906
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Image 34 of After earthquake and fire, 25 AFTER EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE. was buckled so as to make tents, and in other spots there were depressions several feet below the normal level. Southward, along the San Francisco peninsula, the...
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- Date: 1906
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Image 35 of After earthquake and fire, THE EARTHQUAKE. 2/ 75 to 80 feet below the street, because it is necessary to get below the level of the tide. After the sea-wall of the new ferry building was made,...
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- Date: 1906
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Image 36 of After earthquake and fire, 28 AFTER EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE. ceding paragraph and similarly Mr. Leuschner knew nothing of the damage done to buildings upon the filling below Mont- gomery street when he also referred to the...
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- Date: 1906
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Image 37 of After earthquake and fire, THE EARTHQUAKE COMMISSION. The Governor of California, with the approval of the National Government, has appointed a commission to make a scientific enquiry into the effects of the recent occurrence. The commission...
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- Date: 1906
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Image 38 of After earthquake and fire, 30 AFTER EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE. 2. Place and date of observation. 3. Name and address of the observer, if other than the writer. 4. Give estimate of the intensity of the earthquake...
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- Date: 1906
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Image 39 of After earthquake and fire, THE EARTHQUAKE COMMISSION. 31 7. State as exactly as possible the time of commencement and the duration of each shock. The exact time of the beginning of a shock (to the nearest...
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- Date: 1906
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Image 40 of After earthquake and fire, THE CAUSE AND NATURE OF EARTHQUAKES By G. K. Gilbert, United States Geological Survey. The scientific study of earthquakes has made great progress in the last few decades. On one hand there...
- Contributor: Mining and Scientific Press, San Francisco
- Date: 1906