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The Great San Francisco Earthquake1906
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San Francisco, California
✤ [April 18, 1906]
✤ Magnitude: 7.8
✤ Earthquake lasted less than a minute
✤ The city burns for 3 days
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1906 San Francisco Earthquake: Aftermath
✤ 3,000 people dead
✤ More than 28,000 buildings destroyed
✤ 250,000 of San Francisco’s residents homeless
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1906 San Francisco Earthquake: Aftermath
San Francisco in ruins
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Total Cost of Earthquake
✤ $300 Million (1906) = $8.2 Billion (2009)
✤ Worst Incident for Insurance Industry
✤ Insurance companies goes bankrupt (Paid $265 million on claims)
✤ New Law: California Standard Form of Fire Insurance Policy
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1906 San Francisco Earthquake: Rebirth
✤ Planners created a new and improved city
✤ Rebuilt the city with a more logical and elegant structure
✤ New towns around the San Francisco Bay
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Works Cited / Reference
✤ http://www.history.com/topics/1906-san-francisco-earthquake
✤ http://seismo.berkeley.edu/outreach/faq.html
✤ http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/1906/06nsfmart.htm
✤ http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/nca/1906/18april/index.php