1. The Great San Francisco Earthquake1906

2. San Francisco, California ✤ [April 18, 1906] ✤ Magnitude: 7.8 ✤ Earthquake lasted less than a minute ✤ The city burns for 3 days

3. 1906 San Francisco Earthquake: Aftermath ✤ 3,000 people dead ✤ More than 28,000 buildings destroyed ✤ 250,000 of San Francisco’s residents homeless

4. 1906 San Francisco Earthquake: Aftermath San Francisco in ruins

5. Total Cost of Earthquake ✤ $300 Million (1906) = $8.2 Billion (2009) ✤ Worst Incident for Insurance Industry ✤ Insurance companies goes bankrupt (Paid $265 million on claims) ✤ New Law: California Standard Form of Fire Insurance Policy

6. 1906 San Francisco Earthquake: Rebirth ✤ Planners created a new and improved city ✤ Rebuilt the city with a more logical and elegant structure ✤ New towns around the San Francisco Bay

7. Works Cited / Reference ✤ http://www.history.com/topics/1906-san-francisco-earthquake http://www.history.com/topics/1906-san-francisco-earthquake ✤ http://seismo.berkeley.edu/outreach/faq.html http://seismo.berkeley.edu/outreach/faq.html ✤ http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/1906/06nsfmart.htm http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/1906/06nsfmart.htm ✤ http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/nca/1906/18april/index.php