California's Most Devastating Disasters
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 48,3 MB
Release : 1994
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ISBN : 0793301637
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 48,3 MB
Release : 1994
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ISBN : 0793301637
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher :
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 34,58 MB
Release : 1991
Category :
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Lesser known facts on disasters & catastrophes of California.
Author : Abraham Hoffman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 28,59 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1467136026
Home to hundreds of faults, California leads the nation in frequency of earthquakes every year. Despite enduring their share of the natural disasters, residents still speculate over the inevitable big one. More than three thousand people lost their lives during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Long Beach's 1933 earthquake caused a loss of nearly $50 million in damages. And the Northridge earthquake injured thousands and left a $550 million economic hit. Historian Abraham Hoffman explores the personal accounts and aftermath of California's most destructive tremors.
Author : Richard Linthicum
Publisher :
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 11,72 MB
Release : 2009-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409986393
The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a major earthquake that struck San Francisco, CA and the coast of Northern California at 5:15 A.M. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906. The most widely accepted estimate for the magnitude of the earthquake is a moment magnitude (Mw) of 7.8; however, other values have been proposed, from 7.7 to as high as 8.25. The main shock epicenter occurred offshore about 2 miles (3 km) from the city, near Mussel Rock. It ruptured along the San Andreas Fault both northward and southward for a total of 296 miles (477 km). Shaking was felt from Oregon to Los Angeles, and inland as far as central Nevada. The earthquake and resulting fire is remembered as one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the United States. The death toll from the earthquake and resulting fire, estimated to be above 3,000, is the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California's history.
Author : Karen Bush Gibson
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 42,69 MB
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1545749523
On January 10, 2005, people who lived in the small oceanfront town of La Conchita, California, were horrified to hear a loud rumble. Weakened by heavy rains, the mountain overlooking the town began to crumble. Thousands of tons of mud mowed over trees, houses, and people. When it stopped, a huge hill contained fifteen houses and up to twenty-one people. In the days that followed, rescue workers and townspeople worked together to save as many as possible. In this heartbreaking account of the La Conchita mudslide, it becomes clear that even the best-laid plans are not always enough to ensure survival in the face of a natural disaster.
Author : Gary Griggs
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 32,59 MB
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 0520402081
"California is the most populous state in the nation and has attracted immigrants since the gold rush in 1848, whether by accident or intention. Although California also has more natural hazards per square mile than any other state as a result of straddling a plate boundary and because of its geologic adolescence, this hasn't deterred others from moving here. In addition to active faults and earthquakes, the state has a myriad of other natural hazards that frequently wreak havoc on the state and its residents, whether floods, landslides and debris flows, sea-level rise and coastal erosion, an occasional tsunami, and now we have climate change with its more frequent droughts and wildland fires, and more concentrated winter rainfall. This book is about the state's vulnerability to natural hazards, why and where we have these events, what has happened in the past and what we can anticipate in the future. And no place in the state is far from one natural hazard or another. Most Californians have an innate interest in these events and not many years goes by without a catastrophe of one sort or another, which can affect entire towns or regions. California Catastrophes is the only book focused on the natural disaster history of the state"--
Author : Phyllis Perry
Publisher : Sweetgrass Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release : 2022-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781560377757
This book highlights some of the major catastrophic events from natural and man-made disasters dating from 1771 to 2020. It is said that California has four seasons: drought, flood, fire, and earthquakes. From the well-known (the Donner Party fiasco of 1846 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire) and the obscure (the wreck of the paddle ship Brother Jonathan in 1865 and the fire at the Argonaut Mine in 1922). Perry's book surveys the scope and impact of these disasters, covering quakes, shipwrecks, plane and train crashes, car pileups, tsunamis, dust storms, floods, bridge and dam collapses, and the spectacular eruption of Lassen Peak.
Author : Marc Reisner
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,77 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN :
In "A Dangerous Place, Marc Reisner, the author of "Cadillac Desert, the classic history of the American West and its fatal dependence on water, returns to the subject that never ceased to seduce him: California. Writing with his signature command of his subject and with compelling resonance, Reisner leads us through California's improbable history and rise from a largely desert land to the most populated state in the nation, fueled by an economic engine more productive than all of Africa. Reisner believes that the achievement of this, the last great desert civilization, hinges on California's denial of its own inescapable fate. Both the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas sit astride two of the most violently seismic zones on the planet. The earthquakes that have already rocked California were, according to Reisner, mere prologues to a future cataclysm that will result in destruction of such magnitude that the only recourse will be to rebuild from the ground up. Reisner concludes "A Dangerous Place with a hypothetical but chillingly realistic description of such a disaster and its horrifying aftereffects.
Author : Mike Davis
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 42,67 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780330376556
Author : Ralph H. Turner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,18 MB
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520055506
Examines how the media reported a bulge on the San Andreas Fault in 1976, describes the impact on public opinion, and suggests ways to encourage earthquake preparedness