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100 1 $aWinchester, Simon.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50015793
245 12 $aA crack in the edge of the world :$bAmerica and the great California earthquake of 1906 /$cSimon Winchester.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHarperCollins,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $axiv, 462 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [419]-433) and index.
520 1 $a"In the early morning hours of April 18, 1906, San Francisco and a string of towns to its north-northwest and south-southeast were overcome by an enormous shaking that was compounded by the violent shocks of an earthquake, registering 8.25 on the Richter scale. Lasting little more than a minute, the earthquake wrecked 490 blocks, toppled a total of 25,000 buildings, broke open gas mains, cut off electric power lines throughout the Bay Area, and effectively destroyed the Gold Rush capital that had stood there for a half century." "Perhaps more significant than the tremors and rumbling, which effected a swath of California more than 200 miles long, were the fires that took over the city for three days, leaving chaos and horror in their wake. The human tragedy included the deaths of upwards of 700 people, with more than 250,000 left homeless." "Simon Winchester brings his storytelling abilities - as well as his unique understanding of geology - to this extraordinary event, exploring not only what happened in northern California in 1906 but what we have learned since about the geological underpinnings that caused the earthquake in the first place. But Winchester's achievement is even greater: he positions the quake's significance along the earth's geological timeline and shows the effect it had on the rest of twentieth-century California and American history."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aSan Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003006458
650 0 $aEarthquakes$zCalifornia$zSan Francisco$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aSan Francisco (Calif.)$xHistory$y20th century.
852 00 $bglg$hF869.S357$iW56 2005