1906 San Francisco Earthquake Research Paper

In a world where a mysterious alien race has besieged Earth- survival is the ultimate goal. 95% of the world’s population was not able to achieve this goal; Cassie Sullivan is one of the “lucky” ones. The “others,”as the humans call them, set up five waves to eradicate the human race. Surviving the first wave wasn’t too difficult, it was, after all, just an EMP strike. The second wave really shook the world, literally. The aliens set the Earth’s tectonic plates in motion, causing thousands of off-the-chart earthquakes. The tsunamis that spurred from these quakes were detrimental; killing about 50 percent of the world’s overall population. The third wave proved to be the most emotionally devastating. A gruesome plague- created by the aliens

It’s 5:15 AM, and the streets are quiet. By 5:30, the streets are torn apart, and rubble is strewn everywhere. What happened in those fifteen minutes was the San Fransisco earthquake. When you look at “Comprehending the Calamity” by Emma Burke and Laurence Yep’s Dragonwings, you can truly imagine the extent of the damage and fear, even though Burke’s purpose is to inform, while Yep’s is to entertain.

On August 24, 2014 a magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred in and around the city of Napa, CA. The earthquake killed one person and injured over 150 people. And these people were treated at Queen of the Valley Medical Center in Napa [1]. More and more earthquakes occurred on this earth. So this grasps people’s attention.

George Heinrich Crist, a resident of Kentucky, was settled with his family in a well-built house when the New Madrid Earthquake of 1811 came across their path, unlike a storm this “thing” had no warnings. He chose to share his account of this quake, or quakes. This was part of his life and also a part of history in the making so that is why I believe he shared his personal essay. It’s not an argumentative account but rather short entries from 5 months from his life. Kentucky wasn’t the only state that was hurt, 6 other states were involved. The term “New Madrid Earthquake” refers to portions of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi. This was the biggest earthquake (series of earthquakes) as it changed the course of the Mississippi river.

The 9th of February 1971 an earthquake occurred in the lower parts of the San Gabriel Mountains in southern California. The San Fernando earthquake was measured to have a magnitude of around 6.5, which caused severe damage to buildings and major freeways in the Los Angeles area. Two huge health care buildings in San Fernando caused the majority of deaths when they collapsed at both sides. The epicenter of the earthquake was located in the mountains and the most severe damages occurred in northern San Fernando Valley. However, the event impacted other densely populated areas in Los Angeles and caused huge difficulty for transportation as a result of failure in several roadways and freeway interchanges.

Emma Burke has a lighter, more positive perspective, shown by this piece of evidence stating, “The all prevailing cheerfulness and helpfulness were encouraging signs of our progress in practicing the golden rule, and humanity’s struggle upward toward the temple of our savior.” (p.4 Comprehending the Calamity.) Fred Hewitt’s opinion is much more pessimistic and hopeless, shown by this evidence: “No story will ever be written that will tell the awfulness of the thirty hours following the terrible earthquake. No pen of the most powerful description the world ever saw could ever place on paper the impression of any one of the hundreds of thousands who felt the mighty tremble.” (p.1 Horrific Wreck Of The City)

The first page Kathryn Schulz talks about what the different magnitudes of an earthquake are and how they affect the surrounding areas; she also talks about how long some earthquakes of different magnitudes last. She talks about what it was like to hear and be around the earthquake at the very beginning. I believe that this section of the text is there to build suspense. It is also there to give us vital background information about earthquakes that we need to know to further understand the text later. She placed this part of the text here because it is the best place to starts building suspense and to give us background information.

At 8:12 a.m. on Monday morning an earthquake occurred in the San Francisco Bay Area. In Hayward, which is one mile from the San Francisco city limits, a building housing McHenry’s Auto Supply at 2342 Plum St. partially collapsed, killing two people and injuring six others. Three of the six people were hurt seriously enough to require hospitalization and were transported to Hayward general Hospital. No other serious injuries have been reported in Hayward. The names of the victims have not been release due to families’ request.

Jack London’s “The Story of an Eyewitness” is a first-person account of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 and the destruction caused by the fires that large earthquake. The National Archives article reports the same event is a third-person account and differs from London’s account in several ways. London’s eyewitness article provides information, uses real pictures, and uses literary techniques like imdrege to tell the story of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 and the complete destruction of the city in the raging fires that followed

In 1972, a devastating 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit in Managua, Nicaragua!!!! The earthquake killed about 10,000 people and leaves about 250,000 people in the streets homeless and hungry. At around the time 12:29 a.m. Saturday afternoon on the date December 23, 1972, an enormous and heartbreaking earthquake of magnitude 6.2 at a depth of about 5 kilometers had stuck underneath the middle of Managua, also known as the capital of Nicaragua. It happened only 60 minutes after the big shock, two decent sized aftershocks. One earthquakes had a magnitude of 5.0 and the earthquake had a magnitude of 5.2. The earthquake had left damage almost everywhere in Nicaragua and had a ton of deaths and injuries. About 5,000 of the 400,000 people living or just

Some were more affected than others, with whole houses fell down to the ground and chimneys broke. Some people’s houses were not affected at all, but many workplaces and schools were. This collective disaster left no one untouched, regardless of race, age or income. I remember after the earthquake, when the power was still out, I went to Round Table Pizza with my sister to get some dinner. There, they had power and the TV was on. The entire place was packed with families, all eyes glued to the news report showing images of our broken downtown, razed houses and President Obama issuing a state of emergency. Once and for, the earthquake created a true communitas for the Napa

On the contrary, Mark London does not focus his attention on the people during the earthquake in his piece, “The San Francisco Earthquake” but rather writes about how powerful nature can be over man made objects. Unlike Twain, London only refers to people one time in his writing. This is because rather than writing about society during an earthquake he instead writes about the strength a natural disaster can have on something as well built and massive as San

Hi, I’m Portia and I will be talking to you about the deadliest earthquake in the world. This earthquake occurred on the 23rd of January in 1556 and it was located in the Shaanxi Province in China. The earthquake occurred in the late evening but only lasted a few seconds, with aftershocks. It took place during the reign of Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty and is often called the Jiajing Great earthquake. The Wei River Valley was the epicentre, near the cities of Huaxian, Huayin and Weinan, which also suffered huge damage.

During this event over 16,000 people died, 7,000 were injured, another 2,500 were reported missing; and over 230,000 people were left homeless (Oskin, 2015). Due to the active fault lines in the area, Japan’s buildings are designed to with stand earthquakes better. However, the Great East Japan earthquake was more forceful than most earthquakes and over 130,000 buildings were reported destroyed, with a further 1,021,000 severely damaged by the geological event (Oskin,

Mark Twain writes about the Earthquake with a vague sense of time, a first person point of view, descriptive language and copious amounts of humor. Throughout the article Mr. Twain never states what the exact date is he simply says “...just after noon on a bright October day.”(line 3) this is important because it shows that e is not writing to give a clear factual perspective as he has not given a direct fact. Using descriptive language Mark Twain gives the audience visuals of a building vomiting people, and a celing opening and shutting like a mouth. Mr. Twain also gives the audicen visuals of what the people in panic after the earthquake are doing such as a woman carrying her chikd around like a dressed turkey. Humor is used in the description