San Francisco Earthquake

There were only 478 casualties reported by thehelped in rescuing San Francisco. The fire department
government in the San Francisco Earthquakedeathsdid not have enough people to help so the Army was
were reported; the number of deaths was not realisticordered to help. The soldiers were patrolling the
because of the fear of hurting real estate prices andstreets, guarding the buildings such as county jail, post
efforts to rebuild the city. Also, many of the deadoffice, banks. With dynamite they demolish the buildings
were not reported from Chinatown San Franciscoin the path of the fires. The army in San Francisco also
because of the racism against Chinese from that time.supervise the food division, clothing, sheltering to newly
Today the experts are saying that the number ofhomeless peopleThe San Francisco Earthquake
deaths in San Francisco Earthquake was from 3000,foreshock preceded the mainshock by about 20 to 25
to 6,000. Other places in the Bay Area that wereseconds. The strong shaking lasted about 60 seconds.
severely damaged were Santa Rosa, San Jose, andThe shaking intensity as described on the Modified
Stanford University.{mosimage} 225,000 and 300,000Mercalli Intensity Scale reached VIII in San Francisco
people became homeless out of a population of aboutarea and up to IX in the area up to cost like Santa
400,000. Half of the population moved to Oakland.Rosa that was almost destroyed.The fires that were
People were staying in tents in the area of Goldenout of the control after the San Francisco Earthquake
Gate Park, the Presidio, the Panhandle, and thewere much more disastrous than earthquake itself. It
beaches among Ingleside and North Beach.The Sanwas estimated that the fires were responsible for the
Francisco Earthquake left a lot of damage to San90 % of the damage resulting from the
Francisco that was the ninth largest city in the Statesearthquake.Fires started in many parts of town. Other
and the largest in the West Coast. The populationfires were the results of the camping fires from
reached 410000 people. Over 80% of the city wasrefugees. They lasted for 4 whole days.As a result of
destroyed by the earthquake and fire. Because of theearthquake, the water mains were broken and the fire
Earthquake fear a lot of population moved to Losdepartment had less and less water supplies against
Angeles area.The San Francisco Earthquake damagethe fast spreading fire. The fire destroyed 500 city
was estimated to be $400 million USDThe Armyblocks in San Francisco.