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Chargement... Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror (1906)par Richard Linthicum, Trumbull White, Trumbull White, Trumbull White
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A curiosity of the publishing industry of the past was the immediate publishing of books relating to then-current natural disasters and other calamities. This book culls reports of the 1905 San Francisco earthquake and fire from a variety of first hand sources and finishes off with other recent natural disasters such as the explosion of Krakatoa and the erruption of Vesuvius near Naples, the Lisbon earthquake and the destruction of Galveston and Johnstown by hurricane and flood.
Today there is no one left alive who experienced the great San Francisco quake in in 1906. That is why it is important to tell the story. Many recall the terrible quake there in 1989, which caused a rupture in the earth of 25 miles and measured about 7.0 on the Richter scale. The 1906 quake had a rupture of 290 miles and was estimated at 7.8 and, by some, up to 8.3 on the Richter scale. It released 16 times the amount of energy as the 1989 quake (at a minimum). It boggles the mind to imagine what it was like near the epicenter. This is the story of what it was liketold by the survivors, rescuers and eyewitnesses to the immense power, and terror, that was unleashed on that day. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)979.46History and Geography North America Great Basin and West Coast U.S. California West central counties; San Francisco groupClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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The title goes on and on, giving a fairly good preview of the bombastic writing style employed throughout the book. The material on the San Francisco quake concludes with a chapter outlining a wildly inaccurate explanation of seismology, followed by several pages of racist rant against the Chinese population, and a vision of the new city that will rise from the ashes.
By page 266 the authors run out of things to say about the San Francisco quake. Like many disaster books of the era, the material continues for another another 162 pages, with topics including Mount Vesuvius, more bizarre speculation on the causes of volcanoes and earthquakes, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, destruction of Pompeii (Vesuvius again), Mount Aetna, the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, Japanese earthquakes and volcanoes, Krakatoa, Hawaiian and Alaska volcanoes, earthquakes in South America, the 1903 Galveston hurricane, and volcanic eruption in Martinique. It appears that Trumbull White may have been working on a term paper or thesis for his geology class, and saw a opportunity to cash in on his research.
With all of its flaws, this book provides a interesting look at impressions of the earthquake immediately after the event.