The Great San Francisco Earthquake1906

San Francisco, California

✤ [April 18, 1906]

✤ Magnitude: 7.8

✤ Earthquake lasted less than a minute

✤ The city burns for 3 days

1906 San Francisco Earthquake: Aftermath

✤ 3,000 people dead

✤ More than 28,000 buildings destroyed

✤ 250,000 of San Francisco’s residents homeless

1906 San Francisco Earthquake: Aftermath

San Francisco in ruins

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

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

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