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A Most Dreadful Earthquake: A First-Hand Account of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

This new book, by Dorothy Fowler and 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 Bringing together previously unpublished letters from the spring and summer of 1906, this book vividly presents one young woman's first-hand account of her experiences in San Francisco.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 Bringing together previously unpublished letters from the spring and summer of 1906, this book vividly presents one young woman's first-hand account of her experiences in San Francisco.

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 Bringing together previously unpublished letters from the spring and summer of 1906, this book vividly presents one young woman's first-hand account of her experiences in San Francisco.

Bancroft Library: The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

CEISMIC

CEISMIC is a comprehensive digital archive of video, audio, documents and images related to the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011.

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. [The original link is gone. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

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.

Napier City Council - The 1931 Earthquake

Napier, New Zealand.

New Madrid Compendium - The University of Memphis

Here you will find listings of over 600 references that are related to the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812.

Quake: 1906 San Francisco Quake

Santa Barbara Earthquake History

The 1886 Charleston, South Carolina Earthquake

The California Earthquake of April 18, 1906

The Great 1906 Earthquake And Fire

From the Museum of the City of San Francisco.

The New Madrid Earthquake of 1811-1812

With sudden total darkness, continually rolling earth, the sounds of thunder, and the smell of sulphur, many believed the Day of Judgement had arrived. Other spectacles were lakes disappearing while others were created by the changing course of the Mississippi River, sometimes occurring within only minutes. This is an eyewitness account of the most massive earthquake ever recorded in North America.

United States Seismicity

Earthquake history of the United States organized by state .