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The San Francisco Earthquake
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Quake not as severe as 1906
By John P. Milburn
Assistant campus editor
Although the 1906 San Francisco earthquake was stronger than last night's, the two have many similarities.
At 5:18 a.m. on April 18, 1906, the hills of the Bay City rolled and rumbled as a quake estimated at 8.3 on the Richter scale struck without warning. An exact magnitude is not known because the scale still was being developed as a tool for earthquake study.
By comparison, last night's quake, estimated at about 7.0 on the scale, was less severe than the 8.3 of 1963. As the Richter scale increases by one whole number, the magnitude of the earthquake that occurs most often means that the 1906 quake is more than 10 times as strong as last night's quake.
Last night's quake was the most severe in terms of fatalities since 1906, with 250 confirmed dead at 3 a.m. today. In 1971, 65 people died in a quake centered in the San Fernando Valley.
The worst quake of the century in the United States was the March 27, 1964, Good Friday Earthquake near
Prince William Sound, Alaska. The quake measured 8.4 on the scale and killed 117 people.
At the time of the 1906 quake, San Francisco had a population of 400,000 and was the 10th largest city in the United States. In 1966 there were an estimated 749,000 residents of the city, the 12th largest in the country.
19, 1968, the fires and quake left 700 dead and more than $200 million in damage as reported April 19, 1968, in the New York Times. Congress authorized a grant of $1 million to be sent to the area to aid rescue efforts.
Photographs of the city taken immediately after the quake showed the rubble of downtown and the Market Street areas and fires spreading across the city. At 9 p.m. on Monday, Mr. Green wrote that fires from the business district illuminated the city for four to five miles.
Cities near San Francisco, were devastated as well, with 200 to 300 dead in Santa Rosa. Stanford University, Palo Alto, was left with two
buildings standing and two people dead.
Local law enforcement officials in 1968 were told to shoot on sight anyone looting the damaged area. Water and food were rationed to help give comfort to more than 350,000 San Francisco area residents left homeless.
Many of the homeless had no idea if their families were alive or dead. Refuges in Golden Gate Park put messages on a billboard to let others know they were OK. Yesterday, thousands of people flooded telephone lines in efforts to reach friends and relatives in the Bay area.
Yesterday, many of the reports from the city came from sports announcers at Candlestick Park waiting for the start of the World game between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics.
In 1906, the only communication out of the city was through the Postal office over telegraph lines. The Postal worker reported to cities in New York and Boston when it ended when the Postal building was dynamited to stop the spread of fires. ▶ Kansas reporter Kate Lee contributed information to this story.
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because the telephone lines were down.
Martia Kelly, Berkeley, Calif. graduate student, said she was studying for a test when she heard about the earthquake. Her parents live in Albany, north of Berkeley.
"I stood up and screamed and ran to the phone," she said. "Finally, it rang and my mom picked up the phone. I was so relieved."
Kelly initially could not locate her sister, who was on her way to San Francisco. She later found out that her sister had not crossed the Bay Bridge because she had stopped at a restaurant in Berkeley.
Sarah Cook, Benicia, Calif., senior, said she started shaking when she heard about the earthquake. She said she contacted United Airlines to find out information about her parent's flight.
Kelly said she was concerned about her best friend, who lived in the Marina District where a fire had started because of a gas leak caused by the earthquake.
Her parents, who live in Benicia, 30 miles northeast of San Francisco, left Boston around 5 p.m. CDT yesterday. They were supposed to fly into San Francisco or Oakland, but both airports were closed.
She said her father was flying from Los Angeles to Onkland, but the plane was cracked. The international Airport was cracked, so his plane had to return to Los Angeles.
She said she assumed the plane had landed elsewhere.
Jeff Rodgers, Walmut Creek, Calif,
senior, called his best friend in Berkeley when he heard ABC announcer Al Michaels say something about an earthquake before the World Series went off the air.
"It just happened there, and he was freaking out," he said of his friend.
"I talked to my sister and she said everything just stopped," he said. "They're used to it."
B.J. Lohsen, Burson, Calif., senior,
said his parents were working
together in San Francisco and saw
themes collapse when the earthquake hit.
Rodgers then called his family in Walnut Creek, 40 miles northeast of San Francisco, before the phone lines went dead.
He said his parents house, 100 miles east of San Francisco, suffered no damage, but the wall-mounted telephones came off the walls.
Wiley Kannarr, Napa, Calif., senior, said he did not think anything would have happened as far north as Napa, 40 miles northeast of San Francisco.
He reached his parents after an hour of calling. He said they told him that their house shook, and the driveway was cracked.
"I was really shocked. I couldn't believe how bad it was," Kannarr said. "I have lived there my whole life and I have never seen one this bad."