query: when did san francisco last have an earthquake

pos: 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake occurred in Northern California on October 17 at local time (1989-10-18 00:04 UTC). The shock was centered in The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park approximately northeast of Santa Cruz on a section of the San Andreas Fault System and was named for the nearby Loma Prieta Peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains. With a moment magnitude of 6.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX ("Violent"), the shock was responsible for 63 deaths and 3,757 injuries. The Loma Prieta segment of the San Andreas Fault System had been relatively inactive

pos: St. Francis (fireboat) was able to pump water to substitute for fire mains broken during the quake. St. Francis (fireboat) St. Francis is a fireboat operated by the San Francisco Fire Department on San Francisco Bay since 2016. Also known as "Fireboat 3", she was given the official name on October 17, 2016, the anniversary of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Local schoolchildren helped pick the vessel's name. San Francisco had been about to retire the Phoenix, its last fireboat, when the earthquake proved its worth. The earthquake broke water mains. The Phoenix was equipped with extra fire-hose couplings, so her pumps were

pos: St. Francis (fireboat) St. Francis (fireboat) St. Francis is a fireboat operated by the San Francisco Fire Department on San Francisco Bay since 2016. Also known as "Fireboat 3", she was given the official name on October 17, 2016, the anniversary of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Local schoolchildren helped pick the vessel's name. San Francisco had been about to retire the Phoenix, its last fireboat, when the earthquake proved its worth. The earthquake broke water mains. The Phoenix was equipped with extra fire-hose couplings, so her pumps were able to provide water pressure to a temporary network of fire-hoses, so local fire

pos: San Francisco Bay Area Diablo Range and Mount Diablo. These "hidden" faults, which are not as well known, pose a significant earthquake hazard. Among the more well-understood faults, scientists estimate a 63% probability of a magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurring along either the Hayward, Rogers Creek, or San Andreas fault, with an earthquake more likely to occur in the East Bay. Two of the largest earthquakes in recent history were the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The Bay Area is home to a complex network of watersheds, marshes, rivers, creeks, reservoirs, and bays that predominantly drain into the San Francisco

neg: 1906 San Francisco earthquake 2016), who died 11 days shy of his 110th birthday, was thought to be the last survivor. In 2005 the National Film Registry added "San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, April 18, 1906", a newsreel documentary made soon after the earthquake, to its list of American films worthy of preservation. 1906 San Francisco earthquake The 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck the coast of Northern California at 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18 with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI ("Extreme"). High intensity shaking was felt from Eureka on the North Coast to the Salinas

neg: 1906 San Francisco earthquake Francisco can be rebuilt, larger, better, and soon. Just as there would be none at all if all this New York that has so obsessed me with its limitless bigness was itself a blazing ruin. I believe these people would more than half like the situation." The earthquake was crucial in the development of the University of California, San Francisco and its medical facilities. Until 1906, the school faculty had provided care at the City-County Hospital (San Francisco General Hospital, 1915–2016, but "Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (SFGH)" since 2016), but did not have a hospital of

neg: Cascadia subduction zone of the major quakes on the northern San Andreas during at least the past 3,000 years or so. The evidence also shows the rupture direction going from north to south in each of these time-correlated events. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake seems to have been a major exception to this correlation, however, as it was not preceded by a major Cascadia quake. The last known great earthquake in the northwest was the 1700 Cascadia earthquake. Geological evidence indicates that great earthquakes (> magnitude 8.0) may have occurred sporadically at least seven times in the last 3,500 years, suggesting a return

neg: 1906 San Francisco earthquake used in the 1846 Bear Flag Revolt at Sonoma, which at the time was being stored in a state building in San Francisco, was also destroyed in the fire. The fire following the earthquake in San Francisco, cost an estimated $350 million at the time, equivalent to $8.97 billion. The devastating quake levelled about 80% of the city. The city's fire chief, Dennis T. Sullivan, was gravely injured when the earthquake first struck and later died from his injuries. The interim fire chief sent an urgent request to the Presidio, an army post on the edge of the stricken city,

neg: Gladys Hansen natural causes in San Francisco on March 5, 2017, at the age of 91. Gladys Hansen Gladys Cox Hansen (June 12, 1925 – March 5, 2017) was an American librarian, archivist and author. She was an expert on the history of San Francisco and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Hansen was born in 1925 in Berkeley, California. She moved to San Francisco as a child, and lived there for the rest of her life. She graduated from Lowell High School and attended San Francisco State College briefly, but did not earn a degree. At age 17, Hansen began working part-time

neg: Gladys Hansen Gladys Hansen Gladys Cox Hansen (June 12, 1925 – March 5, 2017) was an American librarian, archivist and author. She was an expert on the history of San Francisco and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Hansen was born in 1925 in Berkeley, California. She moved to San Francisco as a child, and lived there for the rest of her life. She graduated from Lowell High School and attended San Francisco State College briefly, but did not earn a degree. At age 17, Hansen began working part-time at the Presidio branch of the San Francisco Public Library. She then moved to

neg: 1957 San Francisco earthquake over an area of 12,000 square miles. Its scientific value was reinforced because it was captured on 13 strong motion instruments. A maximum (free field) peak ground acceleration of 0.13"g" was recorded in Golden Gate Park and .18"g" was recorded on the fourteenth floor of a building in San Francisco. 1957 San Francisco earthquake The 1957 San Francisco earthquake (also known as the Daly City earthquake of 1957) occurred on March 22 at with a moment magnitude of 5.7 and a maximum Mercalli Intensity of VII ("Very strong"). It was located just off the San Francisco Peninsula near the San

neg: Elmer Blaney Harris in New York City and Europe for the next four years. When he returned to San Francisco, he became a newspaper reporter for the "San Francisco Call-Bulletin", and lectured at clubs and universities on authors and playwrights, such as George Bernard Shaw and Henrik Ibsen. However, this didn't last long: when the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 destroyed the newspaper's office and the newspaper, Harris left for New York City. There he wrote feverishly for newspapers and magazines, contributing articles, reviews, and short stories. At the same time he was translating with Cora Older. He began to travel back and

neg: 1906 San Francisco earthquake ahead mainly by re-insurers. Their aim; a uniform solution to insurance payouts resulting from fires caused by earthquakes. Until 1910, a few countries, especially in Europe, followed the call for an exclusion of the earthquake hazard from all fire insurance contracts. In the U.S., the question was discussed differently. But the traumatized public reacted with fierce opposition. On August 1, 1909, the California Senate enacted the California Standard Form of Fire Insurance Policy, which did not contain any earthquake clause. Thus the state decided that insurers would have to pay again if another earthquake was followed by fires. Other earthquake-endangered

neg: 1989 World Series Athletics chose not to celebrate their World Series victory with champagne, as is normally customary for the winning team in the World Series. 1989 World Series (4–0): Oakland Athletics (A.L.) beat San Francisco Giants (N.L.). ABC play-by-play man Al Michaels, who spent three years in San Francisco as an announcer for the San Francisco Giants, was nominated for an Emmy Award for news broadcasting after giving an eyewitness account of the aftermath of the earthquake at Candlestick Park. This would be the last World Series that ABC would televise from start to finish (and also the last they would produce

neg: Fillmore District, San Francisco in an apartment on Bush Street in the Fillmore. Although some African Americans were present in the Fillmore District after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, it would not be until WWII when the Fillmore District and San Francisco as a whole began to have a large African-American population. Between the years of 1940 and 1950 the African American population of San Francisco grew from 4,836 to 43,460. The African American population went from 0.5% of the city’s total population to 4.5% of the city’s total population. A vast majority of these African Americans went on to occupy the Fillmore District.

neg: 1906 San Francisco earthquake 1906 San Francisco earthquake The 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck the coast of Northern California at 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18 with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI ("Extreme"). High intensity shaking was felt from Eureka on the North Coast to the Salinas Valley, an agricultural region to the south of the San Francisco Bay Area. Devastating fires soon broke out in the city and lasted for several days. Thousands of homes were dismantled. As a result, up to 3,000 people died and over 80% of the city of San Francisco was

neg: 1906 San Francisco earthquake was teaching at Stanford at the time of the earthquake and traveled into San Francisco to observe first-hand its aftermath. He was most impressed by the positive attitude of the survivors and the speed with which they improvised services and created order out of chaos. This formed the basis of the chapter "On some Mental Effects of the Earthquake" in his book "Memories and Studies". H. G. Wells had just arrived in New York on his first visit to America when he learned, at lunch, of the San Francisco earthquake. What struck him about the reaction of those around him

neg: 1868 Hayward earthquake 1868 Hayward earthquake The 1868 Hayward earthquake occurred in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States on October 21. With an estimated moment magnitude of 6.3–6.7 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX ("Violent"), it was the most recent large earthquake to occur on the Hayward Fault Zone. It caused significant damage and a number of deaths throughout the region, and was known as the "Great San Francisco earthquake" prior to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. The earthquake occurred at 7:53 a.m. on October 21, 1868. Its epicenter was likely located near Hayward, California, and its magnitude

neg: Margrethe Mather records as either a "boarder" or "student". In 1906 Mather moved to San Francisco, perhaps in response to calls for aid after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Within two years after moving she changed her name, assuming the last name of her former landlord and the first name of her maternal grandmother, Margrethe Laurzentzen. She never explained the reason for her name change to anyone, although photography historian Beth Gates Warren speculated that it might have been due to distancing herself from an affair with a physician that began in Salt Lake City. In 1912 Mather moved to Los Angeles,

neg: Firebreak 600 feet (180 m) deep. In Australia, firebreaks are less effective against eucalyptus forest fires, since intense fires in tinder-dry eucalyptus forest spread through flying embers, which can be carried by the winds to trigger new blazes several kilometres away. The world's most expensive firebreak was created when part of Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco was dynamited to stop the spread of fire resulting from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Firefighting after an earthquake can be especially challenging, because an earthquake can cause water mains to rupture, resulting in a complete loss of water pressure. Firebreaks, along with backburning,

neg: San Francisco Bay during earthquakes, and most of the major damage close to the Bay in the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989 occurred to structures on these areas. The Marina District of San Francisco, hard hit by the 1989 earthquake, was built on fill that had been placed there for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, although liquefaction did not occur on a large scale. In the 1990s, San Francisco International Airport proposed filling in hundreds more acres to extend its overcrowded international runways in exchange for purchasing other parts of the bay and converting them back to wetlands. The idea was, and remains, controversial.

neg: Fung Joe Guey Fung Joe Guey Fung Yue, Fung Joe Guey, or Feng Ru (; 1883–1912), was a pioneering Chinese aviator from Enping, Guangdong province. Fung moved to the United States at the age of twelve, living and working in various parts of California before trying to settle in San Francisco in 1906, the year that the San Francisco earthquake struck. The earthquake spoiled his plan and sent him fleeing to Oakland. Fung was fascinated by the Wright brothers' plane and because he was always interested in machinery, one of the first things he did after arriving in Oakland was to organize an

neg: Diablo Canyon Power Plant was completed in 1973. This fault experienced a 7.1 magnitude quake 10 miles offshore on November 4, 1927, and thus is capable of generating forces equivalent to approximately 1/16 of those felt in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The company updated its plans and added structural supports designed to reinforce stability in case of earthquake. In September 1981, PG&E discovered that a single set of blueprints was used for these structural supports; workers were supposed to have reversed the plans when switching to the second reactor, but did not. According to Charles Perrow, the result of the error was that

neg: Hayward Fault Zone 1906. Many seismologists believe that the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, which occurred on the San Andreas fault, reduced the stress on many faults in the Bay Area including the Hayward fault, creating an "earthquake shadow": a quiescent period following a major earthquake. Since the 1906 San Andreas event there have been no moderately strong earthquakes on the Hayward fault as were seen before that earthquake. It also appears likely that this quiet period in the earthquake shadow is ending, as projected by the rate of plate motion and the stress state of other faults in the region. The 1868 earthquake

neg: Bayshore Cutoff roadbed between South San Francisco and San Bruno when the final stages of construction were about to commence. Work was being performed in two shifts when the 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck in April. Workers in Tunnel 3 (below the orphanage) were terrified by the shaking, which extinguished the lamps they were using, but no one was injured and the tunnel was not damaged. After the earthquake, construction continued. Earthquake survivors were unnerved by blasting for the tunnels, which they thought were aftershocks. Some of the areas for the Bayshore Cutoff route south of China Basin were filled with rubble

neg: 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake earthquake precursor, more recent studies have cast doubt on the connection, attributing the Corralitos signals to either unrelated magnetic disturbance or, even more simply, to sensor-system malfunction. The earthquake caused severe damage in some very specific locations in the San Francisco Bay Area, most notably on unstable soil in San Francisco and Oakland. Oakland City Hall was evacuated after the earthquake until a US$80M seismic retrofit and hazard abatement work was completed in 1995. Many other communities sustained severe damage throughout the region located in Alameda, San Mateo, Santa Clara, San Benito, Santa Cruz and Monterey counties. Major property damage

neg: Central Tower (San Francisco) "The Call" wrote: The building eventually stood 315 feet (96 m) tall with an ornate baroque dome—which housed the offices of Reid & Reid, the building's architects—and four corner cupolas when construction finished in 1898. It was the tallest building west of the Mississippi River for many years. The structure was badly burned and damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, although the building did not collapse. After the fire, "The Call" reopened its offices at a new location, The Montgomery, and the former Call Building became known as the Spreckels Building. In 1938 Albert Roller completely refurbished Central Tower.

neg: 1838 San Andreas earthquake was a fault rupture that extended from San Francisco to San Juan Bautista. Since the South Francisco Bay is at the center of three plate boundary fault zones, many occurrences of earthquakes of magnitude <7 were recorded. The intensity of the earthquake had magnitude 7 ½ and extended to the Hayward fault. There is evidence of the fault rupture extending to Monterey because the aftershocks reached San Juan Bautista and Oakland. The rupture extending to San Francisco to San Juan Bautista had a length totaling ∼ 140 km and indicating an M ∼ 7:4 earthquake. It also caused two large

neg: 1838 San Andreas earthquake sampling, the fault created approximately 1.5 meters (5.0 feet) of slip. For years, another large earthquake was said to have occurred two years earlier on June 10, 1836 along the Hayward fault, however this is now believed to be referring to the 1838 San Andreas earthquake. There is no evidence a large earthquake hit the region in 1836. Not to be mistaken, the Hayward fault 1836 earthquake was speculated to have the similar effects of the San Andreas Fault earthquake. The Hayward Fault was reported in the affected cities: Santa Clara, and the East of San Francisco Bay. Prior to

neg: St. Francis (fireboat) engines could fight fires in neighborhoods where the earthquake broke underground pipes. Most of the vessel's $11.8 million construction cost was paid for from a port security grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Senator Dianne Feinstein attended the vessel's christening. According to the "San Francisco Chronicle", Feinstein was largely responsible for securing $8 million in federal funds to pay for the vessel. Feinstein reflected on how, during her time as San Francisco's mayor, some fiscal conservatives wanted to retire the city's last fireboat, "Phoenix" and how that vessel proved its worth during the Loma Prieta earthquake, when she

neg: Earthquake prediction site of three very large earthquakes in 1811–12, which he coupled with the date of 3 December 1990. Browning's reputation and perceived credibility were boosted when he claimed in various promotional flyers and advertisements to have predicted (among various other events) the Loma Prieta earthquake of 17 October 1989. The National Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council (NEPEC) formed an Ad Hoc Working Group (AHWG) to evaluate Browning's prediction. Its report (issued 18 October 1990) specifically rejected the claim of a successful prediction of the Loma Prieta earthquake. A transcript of his talk in San Francisco on 10 October showed he had

neg: San Francisco Mint old San Francisco mint in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The mint also played a part in the city's recovery after the earthquake. The coin was sold as both as a proof coin and an uncirculated coin, with a maximum coinage of 500,000 coins. Features<br> This coin has a design of the old San Francisco mint on the obverse and a replica of the 1904 eagle design of Morgan silver dollars on the reverse. San Francisco Mint The San Francisco Mint is a branch of the United States Mint and was opened in 1854 to serve the gold mines of

neg: 1957 San Francisco earthquake 1957 San Francisco earthquake The 1957 San Francisco earthquake (also known as the Daly City earthquake of 1957) occurred on March 22 at with a moment magnitude of 5.7 and a maximum Mercalli Intensity of VII ("Very strong"). It was located just off the San Francisco Peninsula near the San Andreas Fault and was felt in a limited portion of Northern and Central California. There was a non-destructive foreshock and aftershock sequence that lasted for several months. With financial losses of around US$1 million, damage was considered minimal, with one death and forty injuries. The San Andreas Fault is a

neg: 1906 San Francisco earthquake when firefighters, untrained in the use of dynamite, attempted to demolish buildings to create firebreaks. The dynamited buildings themselves often caught fire. The city's fire chief, Dennis T. Sullivan, who would have been responsible, had died from injuries sustained in the initial quake. In all, the fires burned for four days and nights. Due to a widespread practice by insurers to indemnify San Francisco properties from fire, but not earthquake damage, most of the destruction in the city was blamed on the fires. Some property owners deliberately set fire to damaged properties, in order to claim them on their insurance.

neg: 1838 San Andreas earthquake 1838 San Andreas earthquake The 1838 San Andreas earthquake is believed to be a rupture along the northern part of the San Andreas Fault in June 1838. It affected approximately 100 km (62 miles) of the fault, from the San Francisco Peninsula to the Santa Cruz Mountains. It was a strong earthquake, with an estimated moment magnitude of 6.8 to 7.2, making it one of the largest known earthquakes in California. The region was lightly populated at the time, although structural damage was reported in San Francisco, Oakland, and Monterey. It is unknown whether there were fatalities. Based on geological

neg: Earthquake prediction predicted. Other scientists argue that it did occur in the San Andreas fault "zone", and released much of the strain accumulated since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake; therefore several of the forecasts were correct. Hough states that "most seismologists" do not believe this quake was "predicted" "per se". In a strict sense there were no predictions, only forecasts, which were only partially successful. Iben Browning claimed to have predicted the Loma Prieta event, but (as will be seen in the next section) this claim has been rejected. Dr. Iben Browning (a scientist with a Ph.D. degree in zoology and training

neg: Castro District, San Francisco Following the earthquake, a large amount of Finns from San Francisco and elsewhere moved to Berkeley, where a Finnish community had been established already before the earthquake. A large part of the early Berkeley population was Finnish. The brick and wood frame of the St. Francis Lutheran Church building survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and then was used for several months as an infirmary. Following the earthquake, the same year, Finns founded the "Lutheran Church of the Cross" in Berkeley, at University Avenue, where the Lutheran congregation still operates today. In c. 1910, a bathhouse called Finnila's Finnish Baths

neg: 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake Area's automobile transportation landscape. Not only did the quake force seismic retrofitting of all San Francisco Bay Area bridges, it caused enough damage that some parts of the region's freeway system had to be demolished. Damage to the region's transportation system was estimated at $1.8 billion. The 1989 World Series featured the Oakland Athletics and the San Francisco Giants in the first cross-town World Series since 1956. Game 3 of the series was scheduled to begin at San Francisco's Candlestick Park on October 17 at 17:35 PDT, and American TV network ABC began its pre-game show at 17:00 PDT. When

neg: Frederick Funston 1899, Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo arrived in San Isidro, Nueva Ecija, and proclaimed the town capital of the First Philippine Republic. He stayed in the house, using it as the de facto Philippine capitol. When the Americans occupied San Isidro, the Sideco house served as the headquarters of Gen. Frederick Funston, who would later capture General Aguinaldo in Palanan, Isabela. General Aguinaldo's capture is said to have been planned in this house. It is now occupied by a Christian organization. In 1906, Funston was in command of the Presidio of San Francisco when the 1906 San Francisco earthquake hit. He declared

neg: Abe Ruef Abe Ruef Abraham Ruef (September 2, 1864 San Francisco, California – February 29, 1936 San Francisco), known as Abe Ruef, was an American lawyer and politician. He gained notoriety as the corrupt political boss behind the administration of Mayor Eugene Schmitz of San Francisco during the period before and after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Born Abraham Rueff, his parents were from a French-Jewish background. Ruef was a very bright student and when barely fourteen, he began studying at the University of California, Berkeley, majoring in classical studies. While attending the university, he developed an interest in fighting the rampant

neg: Eugene Schmitz Eugene Schmitz Eugene Edward "Handsome Gene" Schmitz (August 22, 1864 – November 20, 1928) was an American musician and politician, the 26th mayor of San Francisco (1902-7), who was in office during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and became notorious for his conviction by a jury on charges of corruption. Born in San Francisco, Schmitz was the son of an Irish mother and a German father. He played the violin and conducted the orchestra at the Columbia Theatre on Powell Street in San Francisco, and was president of the Musicians' Union when city boss Abe Ruef chose him to run

neg: Crestmoor High School provide earthquake resistance. The school, and its similarly designed schools, have been designed in an architectural style described as "postwar techno-optimism". The school was closed in 1980. Field Area:The schools Baseball and Football/Track fields are still open to the public, and are currently maintained by the San Bruno City. The track is one of the last dirt tracks you can run on. The fields are enjoyed by youth soccer teams. The view from the school site takes in the East Bay and South San Francisco to San Mateo. Declining student enrollment in the San Mateo Union High School District prompted

neg: Quake (natural phenomenon) than that of the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and far greater than that of any earthquake ever recorded. Such an event contains the energy of 100-110 billion tons of TNT or 2 million modest sized nuclear bombs. It is unclear how such a relatively modest flare could have liberated sufficient energy to generate such powerful seismic waves. The ESA and NASA spacecraft SOHO records sunquakes as part of its mission to study the Sun. A starquake is an astrophysical phenomenon that occurs when the crust of a neutron star undergoes a sudden adjustment, analogous to an earthquake on Earth.

neg: Interstate 980 between Oakland and San Francisco when the Cypress Viaduct carrying Interstate 880 collapsed in the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989. Traffic headed from the south would have to use 980 to 580 west to Interstate 80 west to get across the Bay Bridge to reach San Francisco. This ended when Interstate 880 reopened on a new alignment in 1998. Although I-980 physically goes north and south, it is signed as an east–west route like SR 24. Immediately after traffic leaves I-880 on elevated connector ramps, I-980 then descends below grade to pass under downtown city streets. The freeway then ascends

neg: Andrew J. Landrum House It is said locally that the Landrum House was one of the few buildings in Santa Clara whose chimney did not crumble in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. No major alterations have changed the building over the last 125 years and it remains one of Santa Clara's oldest and best preserved houses. The Landrum house is located at 1217 Santa Clara St. This is a private residence and is not open to the public. Andrew J. Landrum House The Andrew J. Landrum House in Santa Clara, California, was built by Andrew J. Landrum, a prominent Santa Clara pioneer. Constructed in

neg: Jack London were legally married is unknown. Most San Francisco civil records were destroyed by the extensive fires that followed the 1906 earthquake; nobody knows what name appeared on her son's birth certificate. Stasz notes that in his memoirs, Chaney refers to London's mother Flora Wellman as having been his "wife"; he also cites an advertisement in which Flora called herself "Florence Wellman Chaney". According to Flora Wellman's account, as recorded in the "San Francisco Chronicle" of June 4, 1875, Chaney demanded that she have an abortion. When she refused, he disclaimed responsibility for the child. In desperation, she shot herself. She

neg: David Scannell (fireboat) volunteers to paid staff. David Scannell (fireboat) The David Scannell was a steam-powered fireboat built for and operated by the San Francisco Fire Department. The city had no fireboats at the time of the disastrous 1906 San Francisco earthquake, so United States Navy fireboats had to travel there to help fight the extensive fires in the aftermath of the earthquake. San Francisco built a second ship to the same design, the "Dennis T. Sullivan", which was launched later in 1909. Both vessels were retired in 1954. The vessel is named after David Scannell, San Francisco's first Fire Chief when, in

neg: David Scannell (fireboat) David Scannell (fireboat) The David Scannell was a steam-powered fireboat built for and operated by the San Francisco Fire Department. The city had no fireboats at the time of the disastrous 1906 San Francisco earthquake, so United States Navy fireboats had to travel there to help fight the extensive fires in the aftermath of the earthquake. San Francisco built a second ship to the same design, the "Dennis T. Sullivan", which was launched later in 1909. Both vessels were retired in 1954. The vessel is named after David Scannell, San Francisco's first Fire Chief when, in 1871, it transitioned from

neg: 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake was being used in 1857 and San Francisco would have been the locality with the most accurate time kept as it was a center of commerce and other activity. Standard time was not followed until the 1880s, with the Pacific Time Zone being aligned with the 120th meridian. The differences in local times were substantial, with San Francisco at 122.43 W and San Diego at 117.10 W, the difference between the two would be around 22 minutes (4 minutes per degree). At least one individual reported foreshock times that varied by as much as half an hour when speaking to

neg: John Currey Currey lost the 1867 election to Royal Sprague and retired to his home in San Francisco. When the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire left him homeless he moved to his estate north of Dixon in Solano County, in the Sacramento Valley. With his sons, Montgomery Scott Currey and Robert Spencer Currey, there he lived out his last years. In 1845, Currey married Cornelia Elizabeth Scott, who died April 20, 1877. John Currey John Moore Currey (October 4, 1814 – December 18, 1912) was the eighth Chief Justice of California, and candidate for Governor of California in 1859. Born in

neg: Mary Hopkins Searles moving to San Francisco for the last four years of Hopkins' life. Sherwood developed her interest in grand architecture during this marriage. She convinced her husband to build a grand estate in San Francisco to match those of the other railroad tycoons of the era. The house was furnished by Herter Brothers, and was completed in 1880 (two years after Hopkins' 1878 death). The house was later used to house the San Francisco Art Institute. The house was destroyed in a fire resulting from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Sherwood's inheritance from Hopkins his home on Kellogg Terrace in Great

neg: Haggin Museum a love of art. Over the years their growing collection came to fill their homes in San Francisco and Paris. Fortunately for the museum, when the couple moved to New York from San Francisco in 1890, they brought that portion of their collection with them, thus saving it from the ravages of the 1906 earthquake and fire. Blanche's death in 1915 did not diminish Louis' interest in collecting art. In fact, he continued to do so in volume until weeks before he had died. Typical of the art collection assembled after the Civil War by wealthy Americans, the Haggin Collection

neg: Santa Rosa, California the most populous counties in the state. Growth and development after that was steady but never rapid. The city continued to grow when other early population centers declined or stagnated, but by 1900 it was being overtaken by many other newer population centers in the San Francisco Bay Area and Southern California. According to a 1905 article in the "Press Democrat" newspaper reporting on the "Battle of the Trains", the city had just over 10,000 people at the time. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake essentially destroyed the entire downtown, but the city's population did not greatly suffer. However, after that

neg: William Kingston Vickery in gorgeous color. These were the first Christmas cards in San Francisco. When the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire hit, the store was at 236 Post Street. His youngest son, Robert, recounted rushing (by ferry boat) with his father to San Francisco and the store. Had a pair of very valuable Chinese porcelain jars on the mantel survived? Yes, they had fallen off the mantel and rolled under a couch unharmed. General Funston of the Presidio sent a wagon to help save the store's treasures. While the store survived the earthquake, it was dynamited to help stop the great

neg: Victor Hirtzler New York City. In 1904 he moved to San Francisco to manage food service at the recently opened St. Francis Hotel on Union Square. The hotel survived the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, and opened for breakfast as usual that morning, shortly after the quake, to the surprise and admiration of the city's residents. Hirtzler created and named a dish after Enrico Caruso, a prominent guest at the time. For a number of years, including the 100th anniversary of the disaster, the hotel recreated the morning's menu for a special "Earthquake Survivor Breakfast" in honor of the last few remaining

neg: Gladys Rockmore Davis to one school, only to find myself moved on to another. This successive uprooting did not stop me from giving every moment of my spare time to drawing and painting. We finally returned to the United States and landed in San Francisco.” Although neither of her parents had any artistic inclinations, they encouraged her and sent her to Saturday classes at the California School of Fine Arts. “Of this period, I have fascinating memories of the caverns below the school which were the ruins of the original building destroyed in the great earthquake. It was in San Francisco that I

neg: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake of the movie centres on the political and social fallout following the earthquake, and Winslow's attempts to reunite with her family (from whom she had become separated). The movie was aired over a two-night period on NBC during November 1990. There had been some public interest in earthquakes following the Loma Prieta earthquake which rocked San Francisco in October 1989, and in addition seismologists at the time were predicting a massive earthquake to strike along the New Madrid Fault line, which runs along the Mississippi River, an event which ultimately did not occur. (A real earthquake would eventually strike Los

neg: 1906 (novel) 1906 (novel) 1906 is a 2004 American fictional historical novel written by James Dalessandro. With a 38-page outline and six finished chapters, he pitched it around Hollywood in 1998 for a film by the same name, based upon events surrounding the great San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906. James Dalessandro grants his book was partially inspired by a 1989 non-fiction work by Gladys Hansen, curator of the Museum of the City of San Francisco. When looking for research materials in 1996, he found "Denial of Disaster: The Untold Story and Photographs of the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of

neg: Dennis T. Sullivan Construction began in 1909, three years following the quake. Called the San Francisco Auxiliary Water Supply System (AWSS) was constructed and remains the backbone of the city's emergency water supply, its construction was completed in 1913. Sullivan was mortally injured by the 1906 earthquake when an adjacent building collapsed onto his firehouse residence. His wife Margaret survived her injuries. In 1909 the city launched the fireboat "Dennis T. Sullivan". When San Francisco built a new residence for its Fire Chiefs it was named after Sullivan. Dennis T. Sullivan Dennis T. Sullivan was the Chief of the San Francisco Fire Department

neg: Gustave Niebaum the "Rocky Hill" above the Castro, an area densely Finnish-populated at the time - a Finn Town. Before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, nearly all the kids attending the McKinley school (now McKinley Elementary School) at 1025 14th Street (at Castro) were Finnish. Following the 1906 earthquake, a large amount of Finns of San Francisco the Bay Area moved to Berkeley, where many already had settled before. A large part of the early Berkeley population was of Finnish heritage. This is the period when Finnila's Finnish Baths began serving customers in the Castro District. In 1906, St. Francis Lutheran Church

neg: William "Cocktail" Boothby introduction of the post-earthquake edition, the 1906 "Great Quake" destroyed the plates for his earlier version of "The World's Drinks And How To Mix Them". Boothby's place in the growth of the cocktail is significant; his first bar manual in 1891 contained 20 cocktail recipes among the drinks; the 1934 book under his name contains 172 pages of them. William "Cocktail" Boothby William T. "Cocktail Bill" Boothby (1862, San Francisco – August 4, 1930, San Francisco) was an American bartender and writer of San Francisco, California in the years before and after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. He tended bar

neg: History of California 1900–present and un-reinforced concrete are resistance to fire but not earthquakes. A detailed analysis of the city of San Francisco today estimates that an earthquake over 7.0 magnitude would completely destroy or seriously damage many sections of San Francisco and could possibly result in thousands of deaths. Today in most communities, structures built to later earthquake standards would do well in all but the strongest earthquakes. The water mains and other infrastructure needed for fighting fires have all been upgraded but are yet untested. California pioneers after 1848 discovered an increasing number of oil seeps—oil seeping to the surface, especially in

neg: The Streets of San Francisco "Sekulovich", a police sergeant, for assistance; this was Malden's real-life last name. On January 27, 1992, a reunion TV movie, "Back to the Streets of San Francisco", was aired. Douglas, by now a major Hollywood star, did not appear. However, Darleen Carr did return as Mike Stone's daughter Jeannie. CBS DVD (distributed by Paramount) has released all five seasons of "The Streets of San Francisco" on DVD in Region 1, and the first two seasons in Region 4. All seasons have been released in two volume sets. On May 9, 2017 CBS DVD released "The Streets of San Francisco- The

neg: Sunset District, San Francisco of the Twin Peaks Tunnel in 1917, the Sunset was a vast, sparsely inhabited area of large sand dunes and coastal scrub land known as the "Outside Lands." Development was initiated in the 1870s and 1880s with construction of Golden Gate Park, but it did not reach a full scale until after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, when small lots of tract homes and row homes now characteristic of the neighborhood were built into the sand dunes. These tract homes would displace a smaller original settlement built into the dunes called Carville, which was so named for squatters that lived

neg: Hotaling Building the town for being over-frisky, why did He burn His churches down and spare Hotaling's whiskey?" After the earthquake and fire, the Hotaling business started to decline. However the building was revived in 1952 when Dorothy Kneedler Lawenda and Harry Lawenda of Kneedler-Fauchere purchased it and made it a center for their wholesale interior decorative design elements firm. The name Jackson Square was adopted, many buildings were renovated and the street became the interior design center for San Francisco for decades. un Hotaling Building The Hotaling Building is a historic building in San Francisco, California. It is located at 451

neg: Steamboats of the Columbia River was brought down to the Columbia river, thus becoming (although it was not known at the time) the last survivor of the wooden steamboat fleets of both Puget Sound and of the Columbia River. The "Georgie Burton" was one of the last surviving steamboats on the Columbia River. She had been launched in 1906, on the same day as the San Francisco earthquake. Her last commercial run came on March 20, 1947. The trip was described in McCurdy as follows: Mills, an English professor when he was not writing books on history, used his full talent with the language to

neg: San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association SPUR, formally known as the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association, is a non-profit research, education, and advocacy organization focused on issues of planning and governance in San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland. SPUR's history dates back to 1910, when a group of young city leaders came together to improve the quality of housing after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. That group, the San Francisco Housing Association, authored a hard-hitting report which led to the State Tenement House Act of 1911. In the 1930s, SFHA continued

neg: San Francisco Armory covered two city blocks, bounded by Mission, Valencia, 13th, and 15th Streets. The structure was built as a replacement for the old San Francisco Armory in the Western Addition, which had been destroyed by the 1906 earthquake. In addition to its role as an armory and arsenal, during the 1920s, it served as a venue for sporting events, such as prizefights. The Armory served as a stronghold and rallying point for the National Guard in their suppression of the 1934 San Francisco General Strike (an event known as "Bloody Thursday"). The building closed as an armory in 1976, when the

neg: University of California, San Francisco 2016), but did not have a hospital of its own. Following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, more than 40,000 people were relocated to a makeshift tent city in Golden Gate Park and were treated by the faculty of the Affiliated Colleges. This brought the school, which until then was located on the western outskirts of the city, in contact with significant population and fueled the commitment of the school towards civic responsibility and health care, increasing the momentum towards the construction of its own health facilities. Finally, in April 1907, one of the buildings was renovated for outpatient care with

neg: 1989 World Series September, presided over his first World Series and dedicated it to his predecessor's memory. This Series was also known as the "Bay Bridge Series," "BART Series," "Battle of the Bay," and "Earthquake Series" as the two participant cities lie on opposite sides of San Francisco Bay, connected by the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge and the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system, and the earthquake that occurred before the start of Game 3. It was the first cross-town World Series (involving two teams from the same metropolitan area) since 1956, and only the third such series that did not involve New

neg: Iglesia de San Francisco, Santiago de Chile Iglesia de San Francisco, Santiago de Chile The San Francisco Church (Spanish: "Iglesia de San Francisco") is a Franciscan church on Avenida Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins, in the downtown of Santiago de Chile. The church, along with the adjacent convent, is one of the oldest colonial-era building in the country. The church was consecrated in 1622. The bell tower was destroyed by an earthquake in 1647, while the rest of the building successfully resisted it. In 1730 another earthquake badly damaged the rebuilt tower, which was demolished in 1751. The current bell tower is of Victorian architecture and was constructed

neg: 1868 Hayward earthquake and throughout Alameda County. Damage was reported from Santa Rosa in the north to Gilroy and Santa Cruz in the south. Thirty deaths were attributed to the earthquake. The United States Geological Survey estimates that Hayward experienced shaking measuring IX ("Violent") on the modified Mercalli scale. San Leandro experienced shaking measuring VIII ("Severe"), while San Francisco and Oakland experienced shaking measuring VII ("Very strong"). 1868 Hayward earthquake The 1868 Hayward earthquake occurred in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States on October 21. With an estimated moment magnitude of 6.3–6.7 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX ("Violent"), it

neg: 1838 San Andreas earthquake Flat area.Even though studies have measured stress patterns comparing the deformation along fault segments, there is no precise location to the total extent of these earthquake ruptures. North of Grizzly Flat was detected to experience a 7.1 magnitude and there was not a surface slip, despite it being on the San Andreas Fault. The strike-slip ranged from Magnitude ~6.8- ~7.5 as evidence maps its inconsistent stress patterns distributing out from the Santa Francisco Bay Area. 1838 San Andreas earthquake The 1838 San Andreas earthquake is believed to be a rupture along the northern part of the San Andreas Fault in

neg: Bay Bridge Series the Athletics had Connie Mack, Chief Bender, Eddie Plank, Rube Waddell, Frank Baker and Eddie Collins. Such World Series match-ups might have helped contribute to the modern New York-Philadelphia sports rivalry that still continues to this day. The San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics met for the first time in the 1989 World Series. This series was interrupted minutes before Game 3 on October 17, 1989, when an earthquake, measuring 7.1 on the Richter Scale, struck the San Francisco Bay Area. The resulting damage to both Candlestick Park and to a lesser extent the Oakland Coliseum, along with the emotional

neg: Robert C. Richardson Jr. action against hostile Moros tribesmen. He subsequently participated in various other engagements against the insurgents until he left his regiment on October 21, 1905. Returning to the United States, he was with the 14th Cavalry at the Presidio of San Francisco, California for the 1906 earthquake where led his cavalry troop from the Presidio as part of the Government’s response to the earthquake and subsequent firestorm. On October 25, 1906, he returned to West Point as an Assistant Instructor of Modern Languages until August 13, 1911. Then 1st Lt Richardson returned to San Francisco, California until October 4, 1911, when

neg: 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake 3 was held in San Francisco on October 27 and Game 4 the following afternoon as the A's swept the Giants, four games to none. It is likely that the World Series game saved many lives, as Bay Area residents who would have normally been on the freeways were at home ready to watch the game when the earthquake hit. It is a rough estimate that thousands of people may have otherwise been on the Cypress Structure during the 5:00 p.m. rush-hour, as the structure was said to have carried 195,000 vehicles a day. Sources 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake The

neg: Addie L. Ballou Legislature promoting a bill which would allow appointment of women as notaries. Clara Foltz became the California's first female notary; Ballou the second, by appointment of Governor Henry Markham. Ballou maintained an office and studio in the Donohoe Building, 1170 Market Street, San Francisco when the 1906 earthquake and fires occurred. She lost all documents and paintings not at her residence, 408 30th Street, San Francisco, which was spared. Addie L. Ballou died at her home in San Francisco, August 10, 1916. She is interred in an unmarked grave in the family plot in Igo, Shasta County, California. Addie L.

neg: Joe Cronin Excelsior District of San Francisco, California. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake had cost his Irish Catholic parents almost all of their possessions. Cronin attended Sacred Heart High School. He played several sports as a child and he won a city tennis championship for his age group when he was 14. As he was not greatly interested in school, Cronin's grades improved only when the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League began giving away tickets to students with good conduct and attendance. At the time, the nearest MLB team was nearly 2,000 miles from San Francisco. Baseball promoter Joe

neg: Fillmore District, San Francisco Fillmore District, San Francisco The Fillmore District is a historical neighborhood in San Francisco located to the southwest of Nob Hill, west of Market Street and north of the Mission District. It has been given various nicknames such as “the Moe” or “the Fill”. The Fillmore District began to rise to prominence after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. As a result of not being affected by the earthquake itself nor the large fires that ensued, it quickly became one of the major commercial and cultural centers of the city. After the earthquake, the district experienced a large influx of diverse

neg: St. Francis Lutheran Church Market Street and Duboce Avenue. During the April 18, 1906, San Francisco earthquake and its aftermath, the parsonage served as a feeding station and hospital. In 1964, St. Ansgar merged with First Finnish Lutheran Church. The name for the united church, St. Francis Lutheran Church, was derived from San Francisco. Before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, nearly all the kids attending the McKinley school (now McKinley Elementary School) at 1025 14th Street (at Castro) were Finnish. Following the earthquake, a large amount of Finns from San Francisco and elsewhere moved to Berkeley, where a Finnish community had been established already

neg: San Bruno pipeline explosion San Bruno pipeline explosion The San Bruno pipeline explosion occurred at 6:11 pm PDT on September 9, 2010, in San Bruno, California, a suburb of San Francisco, when a diameter steel natural gas pipeline owned by Pacific Gas & Electric exploded into flames in the Crestmoor residential neighborhood west of San Francisco International Airport near Skyline Boulevard and San Bruno Avenue. The loud roar and shaking led some residents of the area, first responders, and news media to initially believe that it was an earthquake or that a large jetliner had crashed. It took crews nearly an hour to determine

neg: 1838 San Andreas earthquake old settler in Alameda County, was thrown down and a large portion of a mountainside, near San Leandro, gave way and slid down to its base. The place where the slide occurred is plainly visible from the town of San Leandro. But the shaking up we received, last Sunday [8th], was quite sufficient to satisfy the present inhabitants. The amount of damage must be very large, though it will probably never be known. Besides a number of buildings which were ruined [in San Francisco], there are a great many others badly cracked and otherwise injured. The 1838 San Andreas earthquake

neg: History of the San Francisco Giants As with the New York years, the Giants' fortunes in San Francisco have been mixed. Though recently the club has enjoyed relatively sustained success, there have also been prolonged stretches of mediocrity along with two instances when the club's ownership threatened to move the team away from San Francisco. When the Giants moved to San Francisco, they played in Seals Stadium for their first two seasons. The stadium, which was located at 16th & Bryant Streets across from Stempel's Bakery, had been the home of the Pacific Coast League (PCL) San Francisco Seals, in their last years the AAA minor

neg: Westin St. Francis the San Francisco Symphony, who was hosting a tour by Caruso, who were both staying at the nearby Palace Hotel, fled the Palace and came to the St. Francis, where the restaurant was still open for breakfast. Caruso carried with him a signed photograph of President Theodore Roosevelt, and swore he would never return to San Francisco; he never did. The earthquake did not cause major structural damage to the hotel, but it did begin a series of fires along the waterfront which began to sweep west across the city. It also broke the water mains, so firemen were unable

neg: San Francisco Mint San Francisco Mint The San Francisco Mint is a branch of the United States Mint and was opened in 1854 to serve the gold mines of the California Gold Rush. It quickly outgrew its first building and moved into a new one in 1874. This building, the Old United States Mint, also known affectionately as The Granite Lady, is one of the few that survived the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It served until 1937, when the present facility was opened. Within the first year of its operation, the San Francisco mint turned $4 million in gold bullion into coins.

neg: Jesse Lauriston Livermore later in his career. He believed that prices were never too high to begin buying or too low to begin selling - a view which remains contrarian to this day. Some of Livermore's trades have become legendary and have led to his being regarded as arguably the greatest trader who ever lived. He inexplicably took a massive short position the day before the San Francisco earthquake on April 18 1906. By selling Union Pacific stock he amassed $250,000 when much of San Francisco was destroyed. These intuitive decisions which almost always resulted in huge profit were a mystery to Livermore

neg: Tuolumne River Gold Rush mining camp its reservoir submerged, the Don Pedro dam was completed in 1923, holding back of water. In 1923 and 1924 both Don Pedro and La Grange dams were fitted for hydroelectric generation. San Francisco did not move forward with plans to divert the Tuolumne until the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fires devastated the city, proving the inadequacy of the existing water system. After exploring fourteen sites throughout Central California, San Francisco had settled on the Tuolumne's Hetch Hetchy Valley as the ideal location to develop storage and hydroelectric power. Because the area had been located

neg: Woodside, California Area programs include Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga and Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin. Woodside is located at (37.420704, −122.259777). Woodside is located on the San Francisco Peninsula, midway between San Jose and San Francisco, just north of Silicon Valley, in San Mateo County. The infamous San Andreas fault runs through town. This fault is a major source of earthquake activity in California, including the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Much of Woodside is wooded, with redwoods and Douglas fir dominating in the western hills and more oaks and eucalyptus in the lower areas. San Francisco Bay lies to

neg: 1906 Meishan earthquake had been completely destroyed by the quake. Omori's figures give slightly different casualty rates, and very different statistics for building damage: The veteran missionary William Campbell wrote: The Japanese colonial authorities in Taihoku (Taipei) sent teams of medical personnel to assist, and Campbell reported that shortly after the earthquake reconstruction efforts were well advanced. At the time some writers suggested a link between the Meishan quake and the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake, which occurred a month later, while some religious groups linked it not only with the San Francisco disaster, but also an earlier earthquake in Cambria, Italy and

neg: San Francisco Polytechnic High School San Francisco Polytechnic High School San Francisco Polytechnic High School was a public secondary school in San Francisco, California. Located from 1912 at 701 Frederick Street, across from Kezar Stadium, the school was in operation from 1884 until 1973. The school opened in 1884 as the Commercial School, on Powell Street between Clay and Sacramento. It subsequently moved to Bush and Stockton Streets. Academic subjects were added to the curriculum in 1890 and art and shop in 1895, when it was renamed San Francisco Polytechnic High School. The building was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake, and replaced in 1911 by

neg: Cogswell Polytechnical College classes for boys and business classes for girls. On June 30, 1930, it became a technical college. It was the first technical training institution in the West. The original campus building was occupied in 1888 in the Mission District in San Francisco. When the 1906 earthquake partially destroyed the campus, the College relocated across the street to an existing home. After the City of San Francisco purchased some of the land by eminent domain in 1917, a new building was constructed at Folsom Street and 26th Street in San Francisco to house the school. In 1974, having outgrown the existing

neg: James Rupert Miller James Rupert Miller James Rupert Miller (June 27, 1869 – August 23, 1946) was an architect active in San Francisco, California in the first half of the 20th century. Miller gained prominence after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake when his firm was one among many called upon to rebuild the stricken city. After serving apprentice and draftsman to several prominent San Francisco architects in the late 19th century, Miller formed his own firm in 1902. Miller joined two prestigious social clubs: the Corinthian Yacht Club of Tiburon and The Family. In 1906, Miller partnered with George T. De Colmesnil to

neg: San Francisco Mint Mint released a gold five dollar commemorative coin which commemorates the 100th year after the old San Francisco mint survived an earthquake. The mint also played a part in the city's recovery after the earthquake, providing shelter for many as it was one of the few buildings left standing. The coin was minted as both a proof coin and an uncirculated coin, and is no longer available directly from the United States Mint. On June 15, 2006 President George W. Bush signed Public Law 109-230, legislation authorizing the production of the 2006 San Francisco $5 commemorative gold coin as well

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Timeline of the San Francisco Bay Area is born in San Francisco 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 An earthquake estimated at 6.3–6.7 on the moment magnitude scale hits the Bay Area, with an epicenter in the East Bay. It causes significant damage throughout the region, and comes to be known as the "Great San Francisco earthquake". "(damage in the Haywards area pictured, right)"
 The Convent of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart "(pictured, right)" in Oakland is established by members of the Sisters of the Holy Names from Canada
 The University of California "(logo pictured, left)" is established in Berkeley, along with the first campus in

neg: Rika's Landing Roadhouse a farm near Örebro Sweden, immigrated with her sister in 1891 to the United States. They traveled to Minneapolis, Minnesota to join their brother Carl Jakobson. There they changed their last name to Wallen to distinguish themselves from the many other Jacobsons and Jakobsons. After Carl died in an accident, the sisters moved to San Francisco, which they heard was booming. Rika took a job as a cook for the Hills Brothers coffee family, which lasted until the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. In 1916 Rika Wallen traveled to Valdez, reportedly "because she thought Alaska would be like Sweden". After jobs

neg: James Graham Fair and lived in obscurity, spending her last days in a mental institution. Later, another woman, Phoebe Couzins, a women's-rights advocate, also claimed a relationship with Fair. The Fairmont San Francisco hotel was built as a grand monument to Fair by his daughters Theresa Fair Oelrichs and Virginia Fair Vanderbilt who named it in honor of their father. Construction began in 1902, but they sold their interests in 1906, days before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Fair is remembered in Santa Cruz, California in the naming of Fair Avenue, and in San Francisco with Fair Avenue in Bernal Heights. James Graham

neg: Frances Marion after having been caught drawing a cartoon strip of her teacher. She then transferred to a school in San Mateo and then to art school in San Francisco when she was 16 years old. This school was destroyed by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. While in San Francisco, Marion worked as a photographer's assistant to Arnold Genthe and experimented with photographic layouts and color film. Later she worked for Western Pacific Railroads as a commercial artist, then as a reporter for the "San Francisco Examiner". After moving to Los Angeles, Marion worked as a poster artist for the Morosco Theater

neg: 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake electrical substations. Many San Francisco radio and television stations were temporarily knocked off the air. KRON-TV was off the air for about half an hour, while KGO-AM was off the air for about 40 minutes. About an hour and 40 minutes after the quake, KTVU resumed broadcasting, with their news anchors reporting from the station's parking lot. KCBS-AM switched immediately to backup power and managed to stay on air despite a subsequent generator failure. KCBS later won a Peabody Award for their news coverage, as did KGO-TV. Power was restored to most of San Francisco by midnight, and all but

neg: 1906 San Francisco earthquake study of the 1906 quake led and edited by Professor Andrew Lawson of the University of California, showed that the same San Andreas Fault which had caused the disaster in San Francisco ran close to Los Angeles as well. The earthquake was the first natural disaster of its magnitude to be documented by photography and motion picture footage and occurred at a time when the science of seismology was blossoming. The most important characteristic of the shaking intensity noted in Andrew Lawson's (1908) report was the clear correlation of intensity with underlying geologic conditions. Areas situated in sediment-filled valleys sustained

neg: Old San Francisco to have Vitaphone musical accompaniment. Just one month later, on October 6, Warner Bros. released "The Jazz Singer" with music, sound effects, and spoken dialogue. Warner Bros. later reused some of the footage from "Old San Francisco" for the 1906 San Francisco earthquake sequence in "The Sisters" (1938). This is Charles Emmett Mack's final film appearance; he was killed in an automobile accident six months prior to the film's release. According to Warner Bros records the film earned $466,000 domestically and $172,000 foreign. A print of the film still exists at the Library of Congress, George Eastman House and Wisconsin

neg: I. W. Taber year Kalākaua visited Taber's studio in San Francisco. At this time the Japanese photographer Suzuki Shin'ichi (1855–1912) was studying photographic techniques with Taber; Suzuki also photographed King Kalākaua (in 1881) and may have been the source of some views of Japan included in Taber's stock. By the 1890s, Taber had expanded his operations to include studios in London, England and in elsewhere Europe. However, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroyed his San Francisco studio, gallery, and negative collection, ending his photographic career. I. W. Taber Isaiah West Taber (August 17, 1830 – February 22, 1912) was an American daguerreotypist, ambrotypist,