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1906 Earthquake Centennial Alliance

Helps coordinate & promote efforts and activities between organizations throughout Northern California planning to commemorate the earthquake.

A Most Dreadful Earthquake: A Firsthand Account of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

Book by Dorothy Fowler & published by the California Genealogical Society, offers insight into the daily lives of regular people as they made do and moved on after the 1906 disaster. Bringing together previously unpublished letters from the spring and summer of 1906, this book vividly presents one young woman's first-hand account of her experiences in San Francisco.

A Most Dreadful Earthquake: A Firsthand Account of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

Book by Dorothy Fowler & published by the California Genealogical Society, offers insight into the daily lives of regular people as they made do and moved on after the 1906 disaster. Bringing together previously unpublished letters from the spring and summer of 1906, this book vividly presents one young woman's first-hand account of her experiences in San Francisco.

Earthquake of 1906 Sonoma County

List of persons who died in Sonoma County as a result of the great earthquake and fire on April 18, 1906.

Earthquakes with 1,000 or More Deaths from 1900

From the U.S. Geological Survey. International listing of earthquakes including date, location & number of deaths.

GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives - Earthquakes

GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable.

History of New Madrid and Goodspeed's History of Southeast Missouri 1887

This page highlights the disastrous earthquakes that affected the Mississippi Valley and the entire SE United States beginning in 1811 and continuing through 1812.

Murchison Earthquake 1929

Dedicated to the memory of those members of the GIBSON family and all those people who lost their lives following the Murchison Earthquake in New Zealand in 1929.

Quake: 1906 San Francisco Quake

Raking the Ashes: Genealogical Strategies for Pre-1906 San Francisco Research

Book by Nancy Peterson & published by the California Genealogical Society, addresses difficulties encountered by researchers seeking early San Francisco city & county records. It tells where to find extant original pre-1906 records, describes the losses & points the way to alternative sources.

Raking the Ashes: Genealogical Strategies for Pre-1906 San Francisco Research

Book by Nancy Peterson & published by the California Genealogical Society, addresses difficulties encountered by researchers seeking early San Francisco city & county records. It tells where to find extant original pre-1906 records, describes the losses & points the way to alternative sources.

Santa Barbara Earthquake History

The 1886 Charleston, South Carolina Earthquake

The Bancroft Library Presents: The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

This digital archive of thousands of images and texts commemorates the 100th anniversary of the April 18, 1906, San Francisco earthquake and fire. Features include an exhibit divided into thematic groups (such as before the disaster, firestorm, and reconstruction), an interactive map of the city with associated images, and a panoramic collage of San Francisco shortly after the disaster. Presented by the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

The California Earthquake of April 18, 1906

The Great 1906 Earthquake And Fire

From the Museum of the City of San Francisco.

United States Seismicity

Earthquake history of the United States organized by state .