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San Francisco Earthquake

There were only 478 casualties reported byThe fire department did not have enough
the government in the San Franciscopeople to help so the Army was ordered to
Earthquakedeaths were reported; the number ofhelp. The soldiers were patrolling the
deaths was not realistic because of the fearstreets, guarding the buildings such as
of hurting real estate prices and efforts tocounty jail, post office, banks. With
rebuild the city. Also, many of the dead weredynamite they demolish the buildings in the
not reported from Chinatown San Franciscopath of the fires. The army in San Francisco
because of the racism against Chinese fromalso supervise the food division, clothing,
that time. Today the experts are sayingsheltering to newly homeless peopleThe San
that the number of deaths in San FranciscoFrancisco Earthquake foreshock preceded the
Earthquake was from 3000, to 6,000. Othermainshock by about 20 to 25 seconds. The
places in the Bay Area that were severelystrong shaking lasted about 60 seconds. The
damaged were Santa Rosa, San Jose, andshaking intensity as described on the
Stanford University.{mosimage} 225,000 andModified Mercalli Intensity Scale reached
300,000 people became homeless out of aVIII in San Francisco area and up to IX in
population of about 400,000. Half of thethe area up to cost like Santa Rosa that was
population moved to Oakland. People werealmost destroyed.The fires that were out of
staying in tents in the area of Golden Gatethe control after the San Francisco
Park, the Presidio, the Panhandle, and theEarthquake were much more disastrous than
beaches among Ingleside and North Beach.Theearthquake itself. It was estimated that the
San Francisco Earthquake left a lot of damagefires were responsible for the 90 % of the
to San Francisco that was the ninth largestdamage resulting from the earthquake.Fires
city in the States and the largest in thestarted in many parts of town. Other fires
West Coast. The population reached 410000were the results of the camping fires from
people. Over 80% of the city was destroyed byrefugees. They lasted for 4 whole days.As a
the earthquake and fire. Because of theresult of earthquake, the water mains were
Earthquake fear a lot of population moved tobroken and the fire department had less and
Los Angeles area.The San Francisco Earthquakeless water supplies against the fast
damage was estimated to be $400 millionspreading fire. The fire destroyed 500 city
USDThe Army helped in rescuing San Francisco.blocks in San Francisco.



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