If you want to learn more about this fascinating bit of history, I read some eyewitness account of the disaster over on my second channel: th-cam.com/video/EFkjkkQjSwc/w-d-xo.html. They're really quite incredible!
My father's home sustained no damage in the '89 quake, but that was only 6.9. Many of the newer homes are better built, but they sit on serious slopes or poorly consolidated soils, or even landfill. I would be less worried in one of the big recent towers ... than if I were in an old B&B under a slope compromised by modern builders. ... ... Just a worry wart ... but still ...
I’m glad you mentioned that the 1906 quake was the first documented on movie film. If I’m not mistaken, it boosted the young Eastman Kodak Company to prominence.
Hi FH, there is a current ongoing disaster in SF that I'm sure you will cover in the future. The Millennium Tower condominiums. It continues to sink and tilt dramatically. And people still live there! Beyond belief.
Interesting fact; In 1904,an Italian immigrant named Amadeo Giannini founded the Bank of Italy in San Francisco to help fellow immigrants who were otherwise ignored by other,bigger banks. After the earthquake 2 years later, Giannini opened his services to everyone who needed small to moderate sized loans for rebuilding their homes and lives,often securing these loans with only a handshake and a promise. Every single loan was repaid in full and Giannini's Bank of Italy went on to become the Bank of America we know today.
Would like to add: San Francisco was also dealing with the Bubonic Plague during the earthquake. Yes, the same black death that wiped out half of Europe. San Francisco wasn't declared plague free until 1908
It was one man in Chinatown who had it and Public Health tried to cover it up. Still same standards we have to live under today, corruption never goes away or belongs exclusively to the past of history. Time folks understood this!
@@RoseRitonya Yeah, she did an excellent job. I think the scariest part was how they tried to downplay and cover it up. The same language was used about the early days of COVID. Too many of us won’t learn from the past.
Did ask a mortician do a video on post vax mortuary findings on people who have died since the roll out ? That would be most interesting. If they didn't do a video on it that's just as interesting.
My great grandparents were in the 1906 quake before they were married. The story goes that Granddad raced across the city to make sure Grandma and her family were ok.He helped people on the way and stated it was complete devastation. Thank you for this video.
I grew up in San Francisco. This earthquake is often referenced and the memory is kept alive. That’s how you know it was bad: the impact is still discussed over 100 years later.
The 1989 World Series Earthquake was a banger too! I was too far south to feel it but I was trying to watch the World Series on TV when it happened. That was the first time I had seen news about an earthquake on TV that I didn't feel. It perplexed me because we had had regular noteworthy earthquakes down south here during the preceding years and then we had some of the biggest ones I've ever felt after that.
Trust me you should be very glad you didn't feel it. I was in the upper deck section 45 of Candlestick park and believe me when I tell you in all that steel & concrete of the stadium, it felt like you were standing on cardboard!!!!!! 👍
The Great Kanto Earthquake of Japan in 1923 was very similar in that it was the fires afterwards that were most deadly, killing between 100,000 to 150,000 people.
a lot of deaths were afterwards when japanese civilians and soldiers killed koreans because they blamed them for the earthquake. they also killed other japanese people who identified or were believed to be non conformers, such as socialists and feminists
The great Japanese director Akira Kurasowa (sp) along with his older brother walked through the devastation just imagine how this stayed with him throughout his life
I’m an earth science teacher, and just talked about this disaster with my classes. I discuss it in my AP Env Science class too. I will be showing this video in my classes ASAP…thank you! 🤘
@@nthgth I would say so, to a degree; it can sometimes be presented to high school students in a way where it gets overshadowed by chemistry, physics, and biology (not meant to be a knock on those fields). When they get into college, it tends to be a field that not many students know about or think about. I teach at a university with well over 30,000 students and my department (geology) is disproportionally small. That also means there's a healthy job market for those holding Earth Science degrees!
My first big introduction to this tragedy was, of all things, a Magic Tree House book. It really put into perspective for 9 year old me just how deadly and dangerous earthquakes could be, and the effects of the aftermath of one.
A lady whose home I once painted baked the most wonderful tasting sourdough bread I've ever enjoyed. She explained that the starter dough for it had come from a family bakery which was destroyed in this quake, having been saved by a quick-thinking employee who grabbed it escaping as the building collapsed around them, and it had been kept alive through individual family members through the years. She said that sourdough bread improves with age and that as far as she knew thee weren't many others older than hers, which was being kept alive by only a few people now. All I know for sure is that the loaves she gladly fed us with during the job was the peak culinary treat I've had in my life. Thant you Mrs. Long!
@@sarahudson108As someone who spent 45 years living in and around San Francisco, I can tell you that almost all “San Francisco style” sourdough bread tastes nothing like the real thing. The real stuff is kind of hard to find as you need the right starter - as another person commented. What I miss most is how “sour” it tastes, and the texture is quite chewy. It tastes nothing like yeast-raised bread, and is absolutely delicious.
On April 18th each year, people meet at the "golden fire hydrant" because it was the only working hydrant after the earth quake. The hydrant is repainted gold each year. I think it all happens around 5am
April 18th; ''Every year on April 18, the anniversary of the devastating 1906 earthquake-fire that destroyed so much of San Francisco, relatives of survivors, city firefighters and lawmakers gather around a golden object in the Mission District ... a fire hydrant ... '' HMdb
They gather first at Lotta's Fountain. Then they gather at the golden hydrant at 20th and Church in the Mission District which was NOT the only working hydrant but one of a handful that saved neighborhoods (the other working hydrants in Hayes Valley saved even more area than the Mission hydrant, and those have been painted silver).
I have a friend who’s great-great-aunt survived the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. She decided she’d had enough of storms and moved west…to San Francisco. Yup.
It's hard to imagine that the ground, that solid thing beneath my feet, could move 6 metres in less than a minute! The resulting devastation is mind-boggling.
The fault slips under the ocean that cause tsunamis can snap that far just about instantly. The length of the earthquake depends how far that instant slip runs down the fault for however many 100s of kilometers.
It's weird to be reminded that the last known survivor of this earthquake died only as recently as 2016, almost a full 110 years after it happened given he died in January of that year. Huh.
Dying people do that sometimes; hold off on fully exiting their bodies until a big holiday, birthday, or significant personal anniversary. In the case of the gentleman you described, I'm thinking that his could have been (a near-successful instance of) the latter? Cheers 😊
Hey, thanks for using relevant historical images and footage instead of AI generated randomness. I really appreciate the dedication it must take to find accurate imagery.
Great video! As a local, I’ve definitely felt my share of quakes. 45 seconds is a rather long time for shaking. Most quakes I’ve felt lasted less than 10 seconds, with aftershocks lasting even less. No wonder the 1906 quake was devastating. Also, we think the next big one will hit the Hayward Fault, which runs along the East Bay hills. That fault line is overdue.
You're right that the next big earthquake may happen on the Hayward Fault, at least up north there. We are still waiting for a true banger down south here. I've been in four earthquakes in the 7s and then there were a lot that were just below that, which are the ones that a lot of people have heard of, like Northridge. A couple of those 7s I've been in shook for nearly 2 minutes and that was honestly quite disconcerting, especially the first one I felt that was like that, which was Landers in 1992. Of course, I was also a kid so that may play a part in amplifying how anxious I felt during that one. There was a 7.1 a few years ago that also shook for around 2 minutes but it didn't have the same very strong jolts that the one when I was a kid had (probably because it was twice as far away). It was just a matter of wondering if it was going to get stronger while it was still shaking and having that irrational fear that it will never stop shaking, even though all the hundreds of other earthquakes I've felt stopped shaking, as have all the earthquakes that have ever happened, but you start to have doubts when it lasts more than a minute. When you consider how many thousands of people feel an earthquake versus how many people have anything bad happen to them because of it, particularly in California, you realize that earthquakes are probably the safest potential natural disaster that you can be in. They just seem extra upsetting because they happen all of the sudden and no one really feels comfortable with that part.
@@whoever6458I remember when I was a kid in the early 90's there was an earthquake that absolutely terrified me. We were living in Moreno Valley at the time. I guess it must have been the 1992 Landers quake. It was the strongest earthquake I had ever felt, it was so strong I think it was the first time I had ever actually HEARD the sound of the house shaking. It sounded like it was going to be torn apart. I had never heard anything like that before. Luckily there wasn't any damage but I really thought that WAS the "big one."
@@iluvyurbles I don't know but a little fun fact that someone should know Is there's a Graveyard that's dedicated to the Russian Navy and the sailors that helped out during the aftermath of the earthquake
@@Collateralcoffee At least this channel always has correct Closed Captions ready, so you’ll still know what he said. And people who can’t play or process sound because of whatever reason won’t have to care.
As I recall, while building codes have improved to make the next big one less disastrous, a big issue for SF is a lot of land was reclaimed from the bay with rubble from this earthquake. Which makes these area of SF highly susceptible to a future quake because of the less solid earth.
@@squirrel2000 I think that was also what caused that highway to collapse. From what I remember, the parts of it not built on reclaimed land didn't collapse.
Yes, the Marina District (a lovely area full of Victorian-style homes) was hit very badly. Not only did many of the homes sink because of liquefaction, but all the water lines broke. Firefighters were reduced to using multiple lengths of hose or trucks to bring in water from outside the district. Even if they didn’t burn, many homes were “red-lined”, meaning the residents had less than an hour to remove their most precious possessions before they were denied entry.
@@auntielaura5 Yeah, those new stringent building codes that the city enacted after the 1906 quake must have been skirted pretty widely to put that Marina District housing up.
You should also do a video on the 1900 Galveston Hurricane, the most destructive storm in American history. At the turn of the century, science was in its infancy, and it was natural disasters such as the Galveston Hurricane, the Eruption of Mt. Pelee, and the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that led to the growth of natural science, meteorology, volcanology and seismology, became major fields, the sort of studies we take for granted today, nevertheless, I also recommend the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake and Tsunami, it was Europe's deadliest earthquake.
We were learning about earthquakes in elementary school and they showed the film footage from this quake. Then my mom told me we'd be visiting San Francisco that year. I was CONVINCED that California=deadly earthquakes and as soon as we crossed the state line I thought we were going to die.
Friend of mine was going to California earlier this year and we were randomly doing touristy stuff at an aquarium a bit before she left. Did you know one of the largest great white shark nurseries in the world is off the coast of Southern California?
Luckily, we don't get earthquakes that anyone can feel most of the time and, when they do happen, it's just a bit scary for many a minute. When there's a big earthquake, only the parts where something bad did happen end up on TV but most of the rest of us who feel the earthquake just have it wake us up and that's about it. I've been in four earthquakes that were above 7 in magnitude and the only thing that ever fell in my house was my desk lamp and that was in a 7.3 earthquake that was pretty close to my house too. The last kind of big earthquake we had was 7.1 and, while some places got damaged, no one at all died. Buildings here are pretty safe and all you have to do is get under something in case stuff falls off of the shelf or something.
I had a similar reaction once when I visited a friend whose family had moved to Chicago. There were some rain storms and a few tornado warnings. I kept asking if we needed to go down to the basement. After all I had seen The Wizard of Oz many times and I knew what these tornadoes were capable of.
Luckily for baseball fans, the seismic rift of Candlestick Park was completed just before the Loma Prieta quake of 1989. Had it not been done, the upper deck would have collapsed on the spectators watching the World Series that day.
I hid under my boss’s desk while the shaking seemed to go on forever. My boss had played hooky that day to attend the World Series, but since he was the Director of Safety his absence was obvious. 🤣
I lived on an island for 25 plus years. Driving across the bridge wasn't something I normally did on even a weekly basis. Of course I've been on the high part that crosses the channel three times when a commercial trawler or other type fishing boat hit the bridge. Very unnerving to say the least when the bridge you're crossing starts swaying.
I live in the Bay Area, and I've hiked across about 80% of San Francisco on foot. It's always fascinating to see how all these familiar locations looked like before/after the earthquake. Thank you for this video!
@@munky123jwI know SF has seen better days but it's a wonderfully historic city in a beautiful location. If that's all you can say about the city then it's your loss
45 seconds was a small amount of time compared to Alaska in 1964. That earthquake was over four minutes. I cannot imagine that length of shaking and I have experienced quite a few earthquakes.
And the 2011 Japan earthquake was 6 minutes long! I can't imagine how terrifying it must have been to experience shaking on that scale for such an extended period. It must have been the longest minutes of those peoples' lives.
My uncle Mack lived in Anchorage from 1960-76, and had hundreds of pictures of the earthquake aftermath. It was right after his daughter was born, so he saved all the baby food jars and filled them with dust from the volcanic eruption of the same year. When I met him in Arkansas in 1976, he had boxes of hundreds of jars of volcano dust. He gave one to me, and that night, he showed us hundreds of earthquake Kodachromes. I still have the dust.
Hello, I commissioned San Fransisco fire boat #3. The city also installed a high pressure isolated water supply that the modern fireboats can now hook up to. These were engineered on our lessons learned partly from 1906.
I convinced my mom to reinforce her house. It's a fantastic idea because it costs so much less to shore up the building you're in against earthquakes than to build a new one after an earthquake.
As someone who worked and lives in the aftermath of a mass-fatality earthquake I have a minor quibble - it's accurate, but almost meaningless to say an earthquake lasted "under a minute". Almost every earthquake is only a second or two long. While there are multiple things that affect it, usually a quake in the mid-7s will last about thirty seconds, the high 7s might break a minute. Two to three minutes you're looking at the high 8s and four minutes is into the 9s. And since earthquake measurement scales are logarithmic, ie each number is an order of magnitude bigger than the one before it, high 7s and above are pretty uncommon. For context the main quake I lived through killed 185 people in a city of about 300,000 and it was only 6.3, though we had previously suffered a 7.1 that ultimately did less damage because it was based further outside the city. The 6.3 rolled towards the hills and then bounced off them and came back as many of the quakes in our area do, which artificially increases the length and causes a second wave of damage. So basically, it's much more effective to communicate the scale of the 1906 quake by saying it lasted for *almost* a minute. Because 45 seconds is very freaking long for an earthquake in a populated area, especially over a hundred years ago when building standards weren't what they are now and gas utilitisation was much higher. You can still emphasise how much damage was done in less than a minute, but once you introduce the quake context there's pre-existing data that makes the information a lot more specific.
Wow, I'm sorry so many people lost their lives in that 6.3! The biggest earthquake I was in was 7.3 but it was in the desert and only one person died who had been unlucky enough to have the chimney fall on him and this happened very close to the epicenter. I lived 50 miles (80.5 kilometers) from the epicenter of that earthquake and that's the only one that's ever scared me. My desk lamp fell but nothing else happened to my house even though the shaking nearly lasted for two minutes since the waves spread out and/or bounced around the valley here. I think it also matters whether the earthquake moves mostly side to side or whether it goes up and down because I was in one in South America that was much smaller but the motions were way scarier than any of the 7s I have experienced in California. The Northridge Earthquake had more of that up and down motion too, which is why an earthquake that lasted 17 seconds and didn't even make it to the 7s caused so many people to lose their lives and so many buildings to fall and, like you said, the epicenter was in a pretty populated area. That earthquake wasn't so close to me so it just woke me up and, compared to the Landers Earthquake two years earlier, it didn't seem that bad to me until I saw on TV what had happened out towards LA. Having been in so many earthquakes, particularly growing up, I ended up joining the fire department and I have several hand tools that would help to get people out of damaged buildings in my room so that I will have a chance to get myself out if there's a problem with this building and then be able to help others if they need it. After a major earthquake, the best thing we can do is learn how to be able to help one another because it will be too much for local fire departments so our communities will do the best if we know the basics about how to help one another.
Three evenings ago I watched Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the 70s version with Donald Sutherland and Brooke Adams) so San Francisco has been on my mind already this week.
Another well done story. I've read about this earthquake and seen several photos of the disaster. I remember the San Francisco earthquake of 1989 (the Loma Prieta earthquake), which occurred when I was serving in the U. S. Navy out of San Diego. We were deployed at the time, so most everything we heard about the '89 quake came over the news wire. The part about the fires causing so much damage as a result of the quake reminds me of another disaster where fires raged out of control, that being the Red River of the North Flood that occurred in 1997 and heavily damaged the city of Grand Forks, ND. This is another story I would someday like to see covered on your channel.
If you'd like to delve a little more into quakes, there was a huge one here in Perú in 1996, The Great Nazca Earthquake which was incredibly violent and destructive with over 80 registered replicas.
I lived in Peru for a while but there was only a relatively small earthquake for the entire time I was there but I can tell you that earthquakes in Peru feel a bit different than ones in California, where I've been in four of them above 7 in magnitude and I don't even know how many other ones that were smaller. In California, the earth mostly moves side to side from the beginning. When I felt that one in Peru, it felt like the earth flung the building upwards first before the side to side part came. Sometimes we have ones that end up feeling like you're on a boat at sea after a while but I have never felt one with so much upwards motion than that little one I felt in Peru. Something else I will say about Peru is that it's one of the best countries that I know of in the world! It's beautiful in every place I went and I went a lot of places. The people are fantastic people in every place that I went. There is just a sense of heart and soul that I felt when I was living in Peru that is extremely hard to find here in the US. Of course we also have very nice people too (and tyrants just like anywhere else), but most people don't show the same kind of warmth when you first meet them as the people in Peru did. People from the US will only show that side of themselves after you know them for a while. I think it may have to do with our individualistic culture and a fear that some people have of other people taking things from them instead of seeing the benefit in helping the people around us when we can. I don't get that, which is why I wish I could have stayed living in Peru.
My family's house in the Upper Mission survived the earthquake and the fire. It was around 20 years old at the time, and made of redwood. Working-class Irish family house, one storey, so it was a very basic yet sturdy design. I was scared when the '89 quake hit because it was in a bit of disrepair and pushing 100, but when I called my family from San Diego, they said some stuff fell off a shelf, but that was all. :)
It's weird that you knew people who felt the World Series Earthquake in San Diego but I lived a ways inland from them and didn't feel anything. That was the first time an earthquake was on TV that hadn't been one I felt. I was watching the live coverage of the game though. The announcer got cut off halfway through saying it was an earthquake and I thought that was what he was saying so I was trying to tell my parents that I thought there had been an earthquake. It took a little while before they stopped playing Roseanne and came back on to tell us there had been an earthquake. I'm glad your house survived another doozy! My family house has survived four earthquakes in the 7 range and I've been in all of them too.
@@whoever6458 Oh, no, I was in SD and called my family (hours later, the lines were jammed!) to check on them. I was sure my old hippie Daddy was under piles of his books and junk!
This reminds me of what happened with hurricane Katrina and new Orleans in 2005. The natural disaster itself was bad, but it was the aftermath that was worse…
A 6meter move in under a minute? O.O Not only is this devestating amounts of energy, but at that speed you could SEE the land move right in front of your eyes!
I'm surprised you didn't mention the 1989 earthquake. I was 4 and remember it vividly. My dad was actually on the Bay Bridge minutes before the quake and it partially collapsed.
i was stationed on oahu and my mother and her husband lived in the santa cruz mountains. i was absolutely frantic because calls weren't going through. it was awful watching that on the news and being utterly helpless.
OMG, I'm glad your dad was okay! I didn't feel that earthquake because I'm too far to the south, but I was trying to watch the World Series then. I was a little kid too and that was the first time I saw an earthquake on TV that I didn't feel because we had good ones about every year for the preceding years and even bigger ones for the years that followed, including the 1992 Landers Earthquake, which is still the largest earthquake I've ever been in.
You should do a documentary about the 1936 Long Beach, CA earthquake. It's surprising today how such a "small" quake did so much damage. Building codes changed a lot after that one. And 1971 San Fernando quake. I went through that one!
March 10, 1933, along the Newport-Inglewood Fault. More recent studies have speculated that the cause was as a result of oil extraction (subsidence) over a course of 13 years.
That earthquake is how the first seismic building codes came about here in Southern California. It's amazing that no one died during our last 7 earthquake and this is likely because our building codes kept buildings from completely collapsing. I am a just a bit too young to have been in the 71 Sylmar Quake, but my mom told me about it. She said it flung her right out of bed. We had some family members who were working at the Olive View hospital and couldn't get down from the higher floors because the stairwell fell off of the building. It's crazy that the Northridge Earthquake happened so close to where that one happened and we still didn't get the Big One that we keep expecting. The biggest earthquake I have been in was Landers and it was also the one with the closest epicenter of all the one's I've felt that were in the 7s. That's the only one that scared me a bit because it got so big and lasted for a relatively long time compared to the other ones. It's also the only earthquake where something fell near me, which was my desk lamp. I don't know how we'll do when the Big One finally comes but I'm glad we had a few, smaller practice runs because our building codes have gotten a lot better just since I was alive.
This video reminds me of a man who was instrumental in the building of the transcontinental RR in the 1860's. Jack Casement was the leader of the track building effort from Omaha on the UP., to Promontory Summit, UT. Jack's wife was Francis, an original suffragette of Ohio, back in that era. Many years after the "Wedding of the Rails" event of May 10, 1869, Jack and Francis were at the Velodome Hotel in San Jose, 18 April 1906, and were trapped under debris. He suffered 3 fractured ribs, survived, (no fire), until 1909. Quite a story, as Jack had been a Brivette General in the Civil War, and a hero concerning Frankfort, KY. action. Thanks for the opportunity to share, from an "Original Transcon RR" enthusiast, Darrell.
This makes the Earth tremor, which just happened in Cornwall, England, look like a mere ripple. It registered 2.7 on the Richter scale. It sounded like a juggernaut hitting the house by all accounts. Very interesting video as usual. 😊 Thank you.
Hey, did you hear then about the brand new weight loss clinic and club that just opened for large and overweight women out in California. There was a huge crowd of big ladies on opening day and in their rush to get inside to join to register for the new memberships some women and staff got trampled by the herd. It was so successful that the event registered as a 5.4 on the Richter scale. Oh! the humanity.
This quake and the Northridge quake were often brought up when I was in school here in LA, and were the reason we practiced earthquake drills often. For those of you who have never experienced one, you sometimes hear the *roar* of the ground moving before you feel it. Closest thing to it would be like a big rig going at full speed past your house.
Oh I remember the Northridge Quake! It wasn't that bad here because I'm further south, plus the Landers Quake had happened two years earlier and not only was that one bigger, but it was much closer to me. That made the Northridge Quake seem less bad to me... until we turned on the TV! That earthquake seems to have taught people so much about how to build a better building that no one even died when we had that 7.1 in Ridgecrest, which is pretty cool! We'll see what happens when we get our truly big one in Southern California but now we have the early warning system so, as long as we don't live right next to the fault, we should have at least a few seconds of warning. In LA, you all might have a couple of minutes since it's about a minute to San Bernardino assuming that the fault starts to break by the Salton Sea.
Great job. A general at the Presidio, a beautiful army fort that overlooked the city, organized his men and had them cut fire breaks around the city. Tents and supplies were set up for people, as you showed. Hot food mess lines were set up, mobile hospitals too. Johnson& Johnson and other companies sent tons of medical supplies,, fruit, food and other needed items. Without being directed. They just did it. Trains came in and citizens from all over the country sent loaves of homemade bread, cakes, pies, fruit, clothes, blankets, toiletries, etc. Also, those wooden homes constructed were designed by a man who had spent time in Antarctica and knew about insulation from cold and had that in mind as he designed them. Some people who lived in them eventually took those homes with them and moved them to land as their permanent homes.
@@susangreene9662 Hi Susan, It was Army General Greely who had previously built shelters in the Arctic. Parks superintendent John McLaren apparently played a huge role as well. And the army and more good people. There were, "refugee," camps throughout SF filled with the white tents that were army issue. I think 20 or 21 camps. By the way in 2020, one of these SF homes or earthquake shacks as some call them sold for $2.3 million. Not as a curiosity, it's been a residence for years. Just want to add that the Presidio general, (Fulton, Fenton?) acted immediately. Did not wait for orders. Assembled his men and took action.❤
I can't remember what documentary it was in, but the rebuild cost of the earthquake and resulting fire included how many horses they knew would be worked to death, something like 15,000. Some aspects of history we don't often think of. I'd love to hear you cover the first Wall Street bombing 16 September 1920. Thanks for being such a great storyteller.
Another superbly done video! I have a couple of suggestions for more natural disasters that would be great for your channel- The Frank Slide The Great Lakes Storm The 1900 Galveston Hurricane The Labor Day hurricane
If I remember correctly the video you showed at the beginning of the camera following the horse drawn cart was determined to have been shot the day before the quake. Someone mounted a camera (a novel invention for the time) on a streetcar and it filmed until the car came to the end of its line. Pictures of the buildings on this exact street were taken after the quake with no one knowing about the film. It’s somewhere here on TH-cam. I’ve seen it and it shows the film in its entirety then shows the same area after.
If I recall correctly this was also before they added the smell to gas lines so people really didn’t know about the danger about lighting fires in the aftermath
The Cajon Pass in Southern California is a striking result and visual geographical representation of the presence and power of the San Andres Fault. The U.S. Interstate 15 traverses right through it.
It's very beautiful there and it's interesting to notice that there are waterfalls that are sometimes flowing and sometimes dry there. I have done some hiking in the areas and these waterfalls tend to come out of the fault. It doesn't seem to cause earthquakes since there hasn't been one there since 1857, but it is still both interesting and beautiful.
It's not the rubbing that causes a large earthquake. Usually, it's when the plates are not moving and are stuck. Once enough pressure builds, the plates will, sometimes with great pressure, and sometimes violently, snap past the point where they were stuck. Yes, most of the time, they just slide and cause smaller quakes, but it's the ones that become stuck that usually cause the bigger ones. The fracture zone north of there has been stuck for a long time and is over due for a huge quake that will, let's just say, be very, very bad when it finally has enough pressure to become unstuck.
Istg you make the most interesting videos, so informative. Honestly I don't see many earthquakes in Cali or San Fran, so hearing about this is interesting! Thank you for making these videos.
@@RoseRitonya Ah okay, I’m not too up to date especially with American natural disasters anyways since I’m from a different country. But that’s actually interesting.
I lived in SF for a year and of course did some reading on earthquake preparedness while there. I was not ready for what I read. Since 1906 SF has added landmass in the form of recycled refuse, creating new districts entirely built on, essentially, trash. Some experts believe that in a big enough quake, the refuse will vibrate apart and “liquify” allowing the buildings on top to sink into the bay. My apartment was built on one of those zones. And they say we’re overdue for another 1906… Never living there again :)
They had that problem during the 1989 earthquake. I'd like to say that they've started building buildings with better foundations in that bay fill but the Millennium Tower gives me doubts. However, there's a difference between a very tall building built on that fill and shorter buildings built on it. If your apartment complex is shorter and especially if it was built after the 1989 earthquake, you should be fine. If it was even built before 1989, maybe it's still okay since it withstood that earthquake. Remember that some people even survived in collapsed buildings during that earthquake and were rescued. While that's not ideal, if you get rescued, you get rescued.
In the book The Great Frisco Quake the violent rip went so fast from Point Reyes to Fresno and San Quentin it was on the city in less than sixty seconds from its outset, reforming the whole southern California coast in the process. Carusos giant collection of expensive boots neatly sailed across his hotel suite.
Same, I know they should be able to withstand it decently well at this point especially the bay bridge cause it's so new but I'm so paranoid each time driving across the bridge to sf
I can relate, because that’s exactly what happened to my brother-in-law during the earthquake on October 17, 1989, as he was crossing the Bay Bridge on his way home from work. It was a total crapshoot that day, as far as who made it home and who didn’t; he made it home, but dozens of others did not. Even after more than 30 years, he’s still nervous every minute he’s on a bridge or an overpass, or he’s stuck under an overpass during a red light. Mother Nature will always have the upper hand, regardless of the technological advances of us mortals, right?! Stay safe out there 🙏🏻
@@munky123jwSeriously?? You’ve littered this entire comments section with your adolescent ‘poop’ remarks; it makes me wonder if your parents know you’re up so far past your bedtime on a school night 🙄
I love the history surrounding the Quake. So much devastation but so much pride and perseverance after the disaster. I'm actually the proud owner of 2 window panes that survived the quake and fire. They are both stained glass address windows people would have above their front doors. You can see how the heat from the fire warped the stained glass. They are amazing pieces of history and great conversation pieces.
"[the next quake] should be nowhere as destructive as the quake that changed the face of the city in 1906" The population density is way higher, the buildings are taller, and if this channel has taught me anything, it's that building codes and lives mean nothing when there's a nickel to be saved by construction companies. Also can we stop and consider the immensity of the land moving 6 meters in under a minute.Not sure how ANY building on top of that, or the resulting sinkholes could possibly survive.
I survived the last major earthquake in California in 1989. I was 9 years old when the Loma Prieta earthquake hit which collapsed the Bay Bridge. I was standing in the elevator at my psychologist's office in San Ramon after just having finished my session with him. The entire building started to roll as it had been built with the latest earthquake resistant technology and was made to roll in the event of an earthquake. It was a rather scary feeling being tossed about in a small confined space. I came home to find my books flown off my hutch in my room and my normally clean room trashed. I still remember it vividly to this day. Though I was never in any danger, it did some structural damage to our swimming pool. That isn't uncommon though when you live along the San Andreas fault line, though. When the next "big one" hits, I will just hear about it on the news because I am far away from my home state.
One of my favorite 1906 quake stories is about the Hotaling Building, a liquor storehouse owned by merchant Anson Hotaling and one of the few buildings to survive the quake and fire. Religious zealots blaming disasters on lack of adherence to their dogma are nothing new, and in response to such claims, poet Charles K. Field wrote: "If, as they say, God spanked the town for being over-frisky, why did He burn His churches down and spare Hotaling's whiskey?"
Having grown up in the San Francisco Bay Area (and experienced three of the big, deadly quakes that have occurred in CA over the past 3.5 decades), I can't express how stressful it is during the first shock, waiting to find out if it's going to get bigger (it always does) and just how big it will be and how long it will last. Every first-shake could be The Big One, and when you grow up with that warning you just always mentally map what you will do as the shaking gets worse and you start to hear your belongings fall and shatter ... I can't even imagine what it would have been like for people a century plus ago, not having public information available regarding what to do (and what NOT to do).
I just have to say that I have been subscribed to your channel now for years and the content that you produce is so very educational. Thank you so much for creating, compiling, doing the research and posting. I get a great deal of enrichment in watching every new video that you post. :) DM.
You should do a video on the 1952 earthquake in Kern County (Bakersfield) California. It is definitely a historic natural disaster that reshaped the city of Bakersfield, yet the people came together and rebuilt.
Thanks for covering this! I live in San Francisco in an area that was completely destroyed by the fire. My building was built in 1913 on the site of a social hall that was destroyed in the quake. It's amazing how quickly SF was rebuilt, but I've also read that in order to get funding for reconstruction, the city deliberately downplayed the number of people killed. It's weird to wonder whether anyone was killed directly on the site my apartment building occupies...
Really appreciate you covering this. I grew around the Sf Bay Area and we’ve learnt about the 1906 and 1989 earthquakes our whole life. So many little remnants of the disaster still exist today.
My late Grandad; (1890-1990) lived in Clearlake Ca with his family in 1906. He was 16 when the San Francisco Earthquake struck. He told me a story about that first night after the Earthquake. He was able to read the Newspaper at night, with no other source of light except the massive fire/ firelight burning from San Francisco two hours away from where he was in Clearlake.😳
I went to sfsu and lived in the city for 5 years…regardless of political views the city itself is beautiful and so rich in culture and history, as is the surrounding areas. Definitely a special place ♥️ I miss it sometimes
San Fransisco has had another very large, devistating earthquake. 1989, the World Series Earthquake. Highly recommend the ESPN 30/30 special, the day the series stopped. Having survived it myself, i wish that quake would have been mentioned in video
If he hasn't covered it already, he most certainly will someday. Across the nation, I was watching the game on TV and vividly remember that moment as my brother lived in Sacramento and I had no way of knowing if they were safe. It brought forth a new level of seismic engineering in destroying a lot of structure which had been thought to be 'earthquake-proof'.
The infamous Loma Prieta quake... I think about that one every now and then. It's wild to me that the World Series unintentionally saved many lives in that quake because people who otherwise would have been driving across the double decker bridge that pancaked in the quake instead were at Candlestick Park or stayed at their workplaces to watch the game.
It's always made me angry that there was such a push to 'get life back to normal' that the homes and businesses they quickly rebuilt were actually less safe in earthquakes than the buildings that had just been destroyed were. Humans just don't learn.
As we saw with the temporary housing after hurricane Katrina, the need for immediacy often overcomes best practices and that people are quick to forget.
They do. Afyer being hit by multiple of the same disasters, and officials worry about revoltes, or being voted out ofoffice, more then the buisnesses,economics and investments futur investors will make. And instead focus on preventing another disaster like this.
Another great video! Could you do a video on the Transbay Tube fire in 1979? A BART train caught fire in the underwater tunnel that runs under the San Francisco Bay, and many people don’t know about it.
In middle school, a teacher read a book about this event to the class. Made an impact on me on both my understanding of history and on book reading. I've since read books to others.
This is why I would avoid at all possible costs no matter what living in an earthquake-prone area. An entire city can be reduced to rubbles and thousands lose their lives in mere seconds from a natural disaster that is impossible to prevent, or predict when it's gonna happen. It's scary.
Natural disasters happen everywhere. Tornadoes kill hundreds of people a year. A hurricane can wipe a coastline clean of life in an hour. Flash floods and wildfires cause billions of dollars in damages, and have their own lethality count. Recent blizzards have had quite a death toll, too. And all of these happen like clockwork every year. Massive earthquakes happen once a century or even less. Many people consider it a decent tradeoff to avoid the other things. No place on this planet is entirely safe.
Pick a spot on the globe. There's probably something in one shape or form that is "impossible to prevent or predict" or multiple if you get real lucky! Regarding earthquakes specifically, we also have these things called "building codes" now and don't build on landfill anymore. You're more likely to die in an auto accident than an earthquake.
South Carolina resident here. South Carolina has a fault or two and I've certainly experienced a couple of earthquakes, but they in no way resemble California earthquakes. One of the ones I experienced felt and sounded like a truck had backed hard into the building I was in. I was sitting in my car at a Sonic during another one when my car started bouncing up and down a bit. I looked behind me because I thought someone was bouncing my rear bumper, but no one was there. On my way back to the office from lunch, I heard on the radio that it was an earthquake. All that to say you never know what might happen. We're more likely to get damage from tornados and hurricanes here, but no place is totally safe.
Us up here in the redwood curtain of Northern California just had an earthquake in Dec 2022 that severely damaged a smaller town at the epicenter, and it was a serious wake-up call for us to be more prepared. i took a class in college here called Earthquake Country that explains how seriously inundated CA is with fault lines, esp Humboldt County……. and i am absolutely terrified of what is to happen when The Big One finally hits.
Our buildings are very well built. You will almost certainly be just fine and even your building will almost certainly be just fine. I have been in four earthquakes in the 7s and was completely fine. The only thing that ever fell was my desk lamp during the 7.3 that happened 50 miles away when I was a kid. Even if you are particularly unlucky and the epicenter is right by your building, the building will almost certainly be a place where you will survive if you get under something, even if the building gets destroyed. It sucks if a building gets destroyed but our buildings are designed so that the people inside them will almost certainly survive even if the building has to later be demolished. Yes, buildings make scary sounds during earthquakes and there's always that fear about the earthquake getting bigger, whether the building will collapse, and whether the earthquake will ever stop shaking, but we all feel that sometimes and it's been fine for nearly all of us who have felt that way. With all the improved building codes, earthquakes are basically just psychologically scary and not generally a physical threat unless you don't get under something and things fall off a shelf onto your head or something. When the next earthquake happens, get under something and remember that you will almost certainly be fine and the shaking will end.
The most scary thing about earthquakes is the complete randomness that they occur so there's no prior warning so you could be just walking down the street minding your own business and the ground opens up from underneath you thats a truly horrific thought
Wow! Another great video. If you're looking for ideas, you should do a video over the Galveston Storm of 1900. Deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history
It would have been helpful to include that while 1989 happened, it was TINY compared to 1906. 1906 was about an 8.0 vs 1989 about a 7.0, the energy release was different by about a factor of 16. Many people think 1989 was big, it wasn't. Much of the Bay Bridge would have been in the water with one more big jolt: every section of the (now removed) 288ft Oakland side broke loose from it's mounts and started sliding down the hill, only one part slid far enough to fall.
If you want to learn more about this fascinating bit of history, I read some eyewitness account of the disaster over on my second channel: th-cam.com/video/EFkjkkQjSwc/w-d-xo.html. They're really quite incredible!
The second channel is how I knew you'd soon be posting about the 1906 earthquake here. 😂
Can you do the, *_Big Bayou Canot rail accident_*
Please
My father's home sustained no damage in the '89 quake, but that was only 6.9. Many of the newer homes are better built, but they sit on serious slopes or poorly consolidated soils, or even landfill. I would be less worried in one of the big recent towers ... than if I were in an old B&B under a slope compromised by modern builders. ...
... Just a worry wart ... but still ...
I’m glad you mentioned that the 1906 quake was the first documented on movie film. If I’m not mistaken, it boosted the young Eastman Kodak Company to prominence.
Hi FH, there is a current ongoing disaster in SF that I'm sure you will cover in the future. The Millennium Tower condominiums. It continues to sink and tilt dramatically. And people still live there! Beyond belief.
Interesting fact; In 1904,an Italian immigrant named Amadeo Giannini founded the Bank of Italy in San Francisco to help fellow immigrants who were otherwise ignored by other,bigger banks. After the earthquake 2 years later, Giannini opened his services to everyone who needed small to moderate sized loans for rebuilding their homes and lives,often securing these loans with only a handshake and a promise. Every single loan was repaid in full and Giannini's Bank of Italy went on to become the Bank of America we know today.
So it's a lovely family owned affair still?
@daniellapan232, As a lifelong Bay Area resident, I was unaware of that bit of history, so I appreciate you sharing it!
Great story
Thank you
Interesting story and heartwarming, I was completely unaware of it, thanks for sharing it.
@@POLARTTYRTM fuggetaboudit.. 🤣
Would like to add: San Francisco was also dealing with the Bubonic Plague during the earthquake. Yes, the same black death that wiped out half of Europe. San Francisco wasn't declared plague free until 1908
Ask a Mortician did an amazing documentary on this topic!
@@RoseRitonya yes! That's how I learned about it!! Love her channel
It was one man in Chinatown who had it and Public Health tried to cover it up. Still same standards we have to live under today, corruption never goes away or belongs exclusively to the past of history. Time folks understood this!
@@RoseRitonya Yeah, she did an excellent job. I think the scariest part was how they tried to downplay and cover it up. The same language was used about the early days of COVID. Too many of us won’t learn from the past.
Did ask a mortician do a video on post vax mortuary findings on people who have died since the roll out ? That would be most interesting. If they didn't do a video on it that's just as interesting.
My great grandparents were in the 1906 quake before they were married. The story goes that Granddad raced across the city to make sure Grandma and her family were ok.He helped people on the way and stated it was complete devastation. Thank you for this video.
liar
Thank you for your post.
@@chrisdonahue524 How so?
Why would someone call you a liar? Did they know your grandparents? People are strange. Thank you for sharing your story
@@chrisdonahue524 edgelord
I grew up in San Francisco. This earthquake is often referenced and the memory is kept alive. That’s how you know it was bad: the impact is still discussed over 100 years later.
The 1989 World Series Earthquake was a banger too! I was too far south to feel it but I was trying to watch the World Series on TV when it happened. That was the first time I had seen news about an earthquake on TV that I didn't feel. It perplexed me because we had had regular noteworthy earthquakes down south here during the preceding years and then we had some of the biggest ones I've ever felt after that.
Trust me you should be very glad you didn't feel it. I was in the upper deck section 45 of Candlestick park and believe me when I tell you in all that steel & concrete of the stadium, it felt like you were standing on cardboard!!!!!! 👍
@@whoever6458 That was the 1989 _Loma Prieta_ earthquake, epicenter just south of Santa Cruz.
I was in Santa Cruz when it struck.
I’ve never set foot in California and I’ve been aware of the 1906 quake as long as I can remember.
@@jiveassturkey8849 Indeed.
Born and raised in California, yet I was aware of the 1964 Alaska Quake since it was front page news.
The Great Kanto Earthquake of Japan in 1923 was very similar in that it was the fires afterwards that were most deadly, killing between 100,000 to 150,000 people.
This year 2023 was the 100 year anniversary of the Tokyo Great Kanto earthquake but you hardly see or hear any news or reports about the anniversary.
Those are insane casualty numbers. I'm assuming dense population and wood construction. 😢
With wooden and paper houses it's no wonder so many people died in the fires. There must've been no way to contain it
a lot of deaths were afterwards when japanese civilians and soldiers killed koreans because they blamed them for the earthquake. they also killed other japanese people who identified or were believed to be non conformers, such as socialists and feminists
The great Japanese director Akira Kurasowa (sp) along with his older brother walked through the devastation just imagine how this stayed with him throughout his life
I’m an earth science teacher, and just talked about this disaster with my classes. I discuss it in my AP Env Science class too. I will be showing this video in my classes ASAP…thank you! 🤘
A fellow earth science teacher! There needs to be more of us.
@@geologyjoerocksis there a dearth of earth science teachers nowadays?
@@nthgth I would say so, to a degree; it can sometimes be presented to high school students in a way where it gets overshadowed by chemistry, physics, and biology (not meant to be a knock on those fields). When they get into college, it tends to be a field that not many students know about or think about. I teach at a university with well over 30,000 students and my department (geology) is disproportionally small. That also means there's a healthy job market for those holding Earth Science degrees!
My first big introduction to this tragedy was, of all things, a Magic Tree House book. It really put into perspective for 9 year old me just how deadly and dangerous earthquakes could be, and the effects of the aftermath of one.
i read that book too!
for me it was an i survive book
OMG SAME. I remember when that book came out.
Jack and Annie have done it all!
I remember that Annie fell into one of the cracks in the ground, those cracks are the scariest part of this for me
A lady whose home I once painted baked the most wonderful tasting sourdough bread I've ever enjoyed. She explained that the starter dough for it had come from a family bakery which was destroyed in this quake, having been saved by a quick-thinking employee who grabbed it escaping as the building collapsed around them, and it had been kept alive through individual family members through the years. She said that sourdough bread improves with age and that as far as she knew thee weren't many others older than hers, which was being kept alive by only a few people now. All I know for sure is that the loaves she gladly fed us with during the job was the peak culinary treat I've had in my life. Thant you Mrs. Long!
We sell " San Fransisco Sour dough " bread in Sainsbury's supermarkets in Great Britain, Must be where the recipe comes from.
What a nice story! Thanks for sharing.
Amazing and wonderful.
Neat, who doesn't enjoy the occasional slice of "bubonic plague bread?"
@@sarahudson108As someone who spent 45 years living in and around San Francisco, I can tell you that almost all “San Francisco style” sourdough bread tastes nothing like the real thing. The real stuff is kind of hard to find as you need the right starter - as another person commented. What I miss most is how “sour” it tastes, and the texture is quite chewy. It tastes nothing like yeast-raised bread, and is absolutely delicious.
On April 18th each year, people meet at the "golden fire hydrant" because it was the only working hydrant after the earth quake.
The hydrant is repainted gold each year. I think it all happens around 5am
April 18th; ''Every year on April 18, the anniversary of the devastating 1906 earthquake-fire that destroyed so much of San Francisco, relatives of survivors, city firefighters and lawmakers gather around a golden object in the Mission District ... a fire hydrant ... '' HMdb
@jayess2119 My grandmother was three years old in 1906
She didn't really remember.
@jayess2119 thanks for the correction
Don’t hey have to scrape off the feces and heroin first?
They gather first at Lotta's Fountain. Then they gather at the golden hydrant at 20th and Church in the Mission District which was NOT the only working hydrant but one of a handful that saved neighborhoods (the other working hydrants in Hayes Valley saved even more area than the Mission hydrant, and those have been painted silver).
I have a friend who’s great-great-aunt survived the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. She decided she’d had enough of storms and moved west…to San Francisco. Yup.
OMG. Out of the frying pan and into the fire!
That's just nature giving someone a middle finger. 😬
She experienced two deadly forces of nature.
The ancestors of the original people of this land were letting them have it. Ha!
I shouldn't be laughing so hard, omg
It's hard to imagine that the ground, that solid thing beneath my feet, could move 6 metres in less than a minute! The resulting devastation is mind-boggling.
The fault slips under the ocean that cause tsunamis can snap that far just about instantly. The length of the earthquake depends how far that instant slip runs down the fault for however many 100s of kilometers.
It's weird to be reminded that the last known survivor of this earthquake died only as recently as 2016, almost a full 110 years after it happened given he died in January of that year. Huh.
Dying people do that sometimes; hold off on fully exiting their bodies until a big holiday, birthday, or significant personal anniversary. In the case of the gentleman you described, I'm thinking that his could have been (a near-successful instance of) the latter? Cheers 😊
@@Ayn-Rand-Is-Dead Me too.
Please do a video on the many, many Hajj stampedes in Mecca. One stampede alone killed at least 1400 people and yet I’ve never seen anyone cover it.
Muslims, who cares.
@@Patco11racist prick, speak for yourself. I would very much like to learn about this story.
@@Patco11You must be fun at parties.
I think Well There's Your Problem has covered it but I don't remember whether it was part of the news segment or a full episode.
@@lego5745 I think so. I just don’t care much for cults that advocate pedophilia and murder. You invite who you want to your parties.
Hey, thanks for using relevant historical images and footage instead of AI generated randomness. I really appreciate the dedication it must take to find accurate imagery.
Great video! As a local, I’ve definitely felt my share of quakes. 45 seconds is a rather long time for shaking. Most quakes I’ve felt lasted less than 10 seconds, with aftershocks lasting even less. No wonder the 1906 quake was devastating. Also, we think the next big one will hit the Hayward Fault, which runs along the East Bay hills. That fault line is overdue.
The zGood Friday Earthquake in Alaska in 1964 lasted for roughly four minutes
You're right that the next big earthquake may happen on the Hayward Fault, at least up north there. We are still waiting for a true banger down south here. I've been in four earthquakes in the 7s and then there were a lot that were just below that, which are the ones that a lot of people have heard of, like Northridge. A couple of those 7s I've been in shook for nearly 2 minutes and that was honestly quite disconcerting, especially the first one I felt that was like that, which was Landers in 1992. Of course, I was also a kid so that may play a part in amplifying how anxious I felt during that one. There was a 7.1 a few years ago that also shook for around 2 minutes but it didn't have the same very strong jolts that the one when I was a kid had (probably because it was twice as far away). It was just a matter of wondering if it was going to get stronger while it was still shaking and having that irrational fear that it will never stop shaking, even though all the hundreds of other earthquakes I've felt stopped shaking, as have all the earthquakes that have ever happened, but you start to have doubts when it lasts more than a minute.
When you consider how many thousands of people feel an earthquake versus how many people have anything bad happen to them because of it, particularly in California, you realize that earthquakes are probably the safest potential natural disaster that you can be in. They just seem extra upsetting because they happen all of the sudden and no one really feels comfortable with that part.
@@whoever6458I remember when I was a kid in the early 90's there was an earthquake that absolutely terrified me. We were living in Moreno Valley at the time. I guess it must have been the 1992 Landers quake. It was the strongest earthquake I had ever felt, it was so strong I think it was the first time I had ever actually HEARD the sound of the house shaking. It sounded like it was going to be torn apart. I had never heard anything like that before. Luckily there wasn't any damage but I really thought that WAS the "big one."
I glad you haven't started using AI to upscale the old photos like other channels. They look better and have more detail as they are.
Wait people are actually doing that
@@iluvyurbles I don't know but a little fun fact that someone should know Is there's a Graveyard that's dedicated to the Russian Navy and the sailors that helped out during the aftermath of the earthquake
Excellent video. Your channel is the "gold standard" by which all similar channels are measured. Thanks so much!
No, actually it is not. There are channels where the owner can pronounce words correctly....
@@Collateralcoffee "Colliquially"
Sure, @@Collateralcoffee, correct pronounciation is what I (and I'm sure others) look for in a good YT channel
@@leftpastsaturn67 That's the correct British pronunciation. Nitpick much?
@@Collateralcoffee At least this channel always has correct Closed Captions ready, so you’ll still know what he said. And people who can’t play or process sound because of whatever reason won’t have to care.
As I recall, while building codes have improved to make the next big one less disastrous, a big issue for SF is a lot of land was reclaimed from the bay with rubble from this earthquake. Which makes these area of SF highly susceptible to a future quake because of the less solid earth.
@@squirrel2000 I think that was also what caused that highway to collapse. From what I remember, the parts of it not built on reclaimed land didn't collapse.
Yes indeed. It's known as liquefaction and it's a very real danger in earthquakes.
Yes, the Marina District (a lovely area full of Victorian-style homes) was hit very badly. Not only did many of the homes sink because of liquefaction, but all the water lines broke. Firefighters were reduced to using multiple lengths of hose or trucks to bring in water from outside the district. Even if they didn’t burn, many homes were “red-lined”, meaning the residents had less than an hour to remove their most precious possessions before they were denied entry.
@@auntielaura5 Yeah, those new stringent building codes that the city enacted after the 1906 quake must have been skirted pretty widely to put that Marina District housing up.
@@billolsen4360 Yeah, well, for a long time they didn’t understand liquefaction so landfill wasn’t considered a problem.
You should also do a video on the 1900 Galveston Hurricane, the most destructive storm in American history. At the turn of the century, science was in its infancy, and it was natural disasters such as the Galveston Hurricane, the Eruption of Mt. Pelee, and the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that led to the growth of natural science, meteorology, volcanology and seismology, became major fields, the sort of studies we take for granted today, nevertheless, I also recommend the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake and Tsunami, it was Europe's deadliest earthquake.
We were learning about earthquakes in elementary school and they showed the film footage from this quake. Then my mom told me we'd be visiting San Francisco that year.
I was CONVINCED that California=deadly earthquakes and as soon as we crossed the state line I thought we were going to die.
Nah, you just have to worry about the widespread homeless and out of control drug use. :^)
Friend of mine was going to California earlier this year and we were randomly doing touristy stuff at an aquarium a bit before she left. Did you know one of the largest great white shark nurseries in the world is off the coast of Southern California?
Luckily, we don't get earthquakes that anyone can feel most of the time and, when they do happen, it's just a bit scary for many a minute. When there's a big earthquake, only the parts where something bad did happen end up on TV but most of the rest of us who feel the earthquake just have it wake us up and that's about it. I've been in four earthquakes that were above 7 in magnitude and the only thing that ever fell in my house was my desk lamp and that was in a 7.3 earthquake that was pretty close to my house too. The last kind of big earthquake we had was 7.1 and, while some places got damaged, no one at all died. Buildings here are pretty safe and all you have to do is get under something in case stuff falls off of the shelf or something.
@@Ayn-Rand-Is-DeadIt's notorious and completely out of control in San Francisco because the city has basically allowed vagrants to take over.
I had a similar reaction once when I visited a friend whose family had moved to Chicago. There were some rain storms and a few tornado warnings. I kept asking if we needed to go down to the basement. After all I had seen The Wizard of Oz many times and I knew what these tornadoes were capable of.
Luckily for baseball fans, the seismic rift of Candlestick Park was completed just before the Loma Prieta quake of 1989. Had it not been done, the upper deck would have collapsed on the spectators watching the World Series that day.
Unfortunately, the same couldn't be said for the Oakland/Bay Bridge and the double-deck freeway that collapsed.
@@skyden24195dude that dual deck freeway collapse is the stuff of nightmares 😮
I was across the Bay in Richmond that day. There was little damage where I was.
I hid under my boss’s desk while the shaking seemed to go on forever. My boss had played hooky that day to attend the World Series, but since he was the Director of Safety his absence was obvious. 🤣
@@auntielaura5 I just sat down to work on a model kit and watch the game. I live in Fresno and it rolled pretty good there.
Im slightly terrified every time i drive across the bay/golden gate bridges that it's going to be right when the next big earthquake hits
I lived on an island for 25 plus years. Driving across the bridge wasn't something I normally did on even a weekly basis. Of course I've been on the high part that crosses the channel three times when a commercial trawler or other type fishing boat hit the bridge. Very unnerving to say the least when the bridge you're crossing starts swaying.
How terrifying it must be to escape your home before it collapsed or caught fire only to lose just about all of your worldly possessions.
I live in the Bay Area, and I've hiked across about 80% of San Francisco on foot. It's always fascinating to see how all these familiar locations looked like before/after the earthquake. Thank you for this video!
Do you poop I'm the streets?
@@munky123jwI know SF has seen better days but it's a wonderfully historic city in a beautiful location. If that's all you can say about the city then it's your loss
Car break-in capital of the country! Absolutely disgusting place. Local and state gov't has ensure its destruction.@@conehed1138
The firebreak finally stopped the fires on Van Ness. You can still see the different architectural styles on the two sides of the street.
45 seconds was a small amount of time compared to Alaska in 1964. That earthquake was over four minutes. I cannot imagine that length of shaking and I have experienced quite a few earthquakes.
And the 2011 Japan earthquake was 6 minutes long! I can't imagine how terrifying it must have been to experience shaking on that scale for such an extended period. It must have been the longest minutes of those peoples' lives.
@@ClefairyRoxand for most, the last 6 minutes of their lives😢 Can’t imagine the terror.
My uncle Mack lived in Anchorage from 1960-76, and had hundreds of pictures of the earthquake aftermath. It was right after his daughter was born, so he saved all the baby food jars and filled them with dust from the volcanic eruption of the same year. When I met him in Arkansas in 1976, he had boxes of hundreds of jars of volcano dust. He gave one to me, and that night, he showed us hundreds of earthquake Kodachromes. I still have the dust.
The Alaska quake of 64 was 9.2 on the Richter scale that's why the shaking lasted for over 4 minutes!!!!!!! 👍
Hello, I commissioned San Fransisco fire boat #3. The city also installed a high pressure isolated water supply that the modern fireboats can now hook up to. These were engineered on our lessons learned partly from 1906.
Can you tell us how old you are?
Nice!
I love how listenable the Fascinating Horror channel is. Good video, as always. Keep up the good work!
Fancy getting this video's notice...12 hours ago we were getting an estimate to underpin our Bay Area house! Thank you for the documentary!
I convinced my mom to reinforce her house. It's a fantastic idea because it costs so much less to shore up the building you're in against earthquakes than to build a new one after an earthquake.
As someone who worked and lives in the aftermath of a mass-fatality earthquake I have a minor quibble - it's accurate, but almost meaningless to say an earthquake lasted "under a minute". Almost every earthquake is only a second or two long. While there are multiple things that affect it, usually a quake in the mid-7s will last about thirty seconds, the high 7s might break a minute. Two to three minutes you're looking at the high 8s and four minutes is into the 9s. And since earthquake measurement scales are logarithmic, ie each number is an order of magnitude bigger than the one before it, high 7s and above are pretty uncommon. For context the main quake I lived through killed 185 people in a city of about 300,000 and it was only 6.3, though we had previously suffered a 7.1 that ultimately did less damage because it was based further outside the city. The 6.3 rolled towards the hills and then bounced off them and came back as many of the quakes in our area do, which artificially increases the length and causes a second wave of damage.
So basically, it's much more effective to communicate the scale of the 1906 quake by saying it lasted for *almost* a minute. Because 45 seconds is very freaking long for an earthquake in a populated area, especially over a hundred years ago when building standards weren't what they are now and gas utilitisation was much higher. You can still emphasise how much damage was done in less than a minute, but once you introduce the quake context there's pre-existing data that makes the information a lot more specific.
Look up the word 'cavil', dear.
Wow, I'm sorry so many people lost their lives in that 6.3! The biggest earthquake I was in was 7.3 but it was in the desert and only one person died who had been unlucky enough to have the chimney fall on him and this happened very close to the epicenter. I lived 50 miles (80.5 kilometers) from the epicenter of that earthquake and that's the only one that's ever scared me. My desk lamp fell but nothing else happened to my house even though the shaking nearly lasted for two minutes since the waves spread out and/or bounced around the valley here. I think it also matters whether the earthquake moves mostly side to side or whether it goes up and down because I was in one in South America that was much smaller but the motions were way scarier than any of the 7s I have experienced in California. The Northridge Earthquake had more of that up and down motion too, which is why an earthquake that lasted 17 seconds and didn't even make it to the 7s caused so many people to lose their lives and so many buildings to fall and, like you said, the epicenter was in a pretty populated area. That earthquake wasn't so close to me so it just woke me up and, compared to the Landers Earthquake two years earlier, it didn't seem that bad to me until I saw on TV what had happened out towards LA.
Having been in so many earthquakes, particularly growing up, I ended up joining the fire department and I have several hand tools that would help to get people out of damaged buildings in my room so that I will have a chance to get myself out if there's a problem with this building and then be able to help others if they need it. After a major earthquake, the best thing we can do is learn how to be able to help one another because it will be too much for local fire departments so our communities will do the best if we know the basics about how to help one another.
Three evenings ago I watched Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the 70s version with Donald Sutherland and Brooke Adams) so San Francisco has been on my mind already this week.
How can you mention San Francisco without talking about starfleet academy
@@personzorz My bad. I do love Star Trek IV too. 😂🐋
Another well done story. I've read about this earthquake and seen several photos of the disaster. I remember the San Francisco earthquake of 1989 (the Loma Prieta earthquake), which occurred when I was serving in the U. S. Navy out of San Diego. We were deployed at the time, so most everything we heard about the '89 quake came over the news wire. The part about the fires causing so much damage as a result of the quake reminds me of another disaster where fires raged out of control, that being the Red River of the North Flood that occurred in 1997 and heavily damaged the city of Grand Forks, ND. This is another story I would someday like to see covered on your channel.
Thank you for recognizing it as the _Loma Prieta_ earthquake.
I was in Santa Cruz on October 17, 1989.
If you'd like to delve a little more into quakes, there was a huge one here in Perú in 1996, The Great Nazca Earthquake which was incredibly violent and destructive with over 80 registered replicas.
I lived in Peru for a while but there was only a relatively small earthquake for the entire time I was there but I can tell you that earthquakes in Peru feel a bit different than ones in California, where I've been in four of them above 7 in magnitude and I don't even know how many other ones that were smaller. In California, the earth mostly moves side to side from the beginning. When I felt that one in Peru, it felt like the earth flung the building upwards first before the side to side part came. Sometimes we have ones that end up feeling like you're on a boat at sea after a while but I have never felt one with so much upwards motion than that little one I felt in Peru.
Something else I will say about Peru is that it's one of the best countries that I know of in the world! It's beautiful in every place I went and I went a lot of places. The people are fantastic people in every place that I went. There is just a sense of heart and soul that I felt when I was living in Peru that is extremely hard to find here in the US. Of course we also have very nice people too (and tyrants just like anywhere else), but most people don't show the same kind of warmth when you first meet them as the people in Peru did. People from the US will only show that side of themselves after you know them for a while. I think it may have to do with our individualistic culture and a fear that some people have of other people taking things from them instead of seeing the benefit in helping the people around us when we can. I don't get that, which is why I wish I could have stayed living in Peru.
My family's house in the Upper Mission survived the earthquake and the fire. It was around 20 years old at the time, and made of redwood. Working-class Irish family house, one storey, so it was a very basic yet sturdy design. I was scared when the '89 quake hit because it was in a bit of disrepair and pushing 100, but when I called my family from San Diego, they said some stuff fell off a shelf, but that was all. :)
You can't beat that old workmanship!!
It's weird that you knew people who felt the World Series Earthquake in San Diego but I lived a ways inland from them and didn't feel anything. That was the first time an earthquake was on TV that hadn't been one I felt. I was watching the live coverage of the game though. The announcer got cut off halfway through saying it was an earthquake and I thought that was what he was saying so I was trying to tell my parents that I thought there had been an earthquake. It took a little while before they stopped playing Roseanne and came back on to tell us there had been an earthquake. I'm glad your house survived another doozy! My family house has survived four earthquakes in the 7 range and I've been in all of them too.
@@whoever6458 Oh, no, I was in SD and called my family (hours later, the lines were jammed!) to check on them. I was sure my old hippie Daddy was under piles of his books and junk!
This reminds me of what happened with hurricane Katrina and new Orleans in 2005. The natural disaster itself was bad, but it was the aftermath that was worse…
A 6meter move in under a minute? O.O
Not only is this devestating amounts of energy, but at that speed you could SEE the land move right in front of your eyes!
yeah, those numbers are absolutely insane for geological movement
Was the magnitude recorded?
If you're outside when even a much smaller earthquake happens, sometimes you can see the earth moving. It's crazy!
I'm surprised you didn't mention the 1989 earthquake. I was 4 and remember it vividly. My dad was actually on the Bay Bridge minutes before the quake and it partially collapsed.
I was in Richmond, across the Bay. Sad times for so many.
i was stationed on oahu and my mother and her husband lived in the santa cruz mountains. i was absolutely frantic because calls weren't going through. it was awful watching that on the news and being utterly helpless.
OMG, I'm glad your dad was okay! I didn't feel that earthquake because I'm too far to the south, but I was trying to watch the World Series then. I was a little kid too and that was the first time I saw an earthquake on TV that I didn't feel because we had good ones about every year for the preceding years and even bigger ones for the years that followed, including the 1992 Landers Earthquake, which is still the largest earthquake I've ever been in.
@@missmanners62 I was in Santa Cruz on October 17, 1989.
I read somewhere that there were many mercy killings of those people trapped in burning debris and faced with an agonising death 😮
That wouldn't surprise me.
You should do a documentary about the 1936 Long Beach, CA earthquake. It's surprising today how such a "small" quake did so much damage. Building codes changed a lot after that one. And 1971 San Fernando quake. I went through that one!
I recall seeing a movie clip of a Hollywood movie (with W.C. Fields) wherein that earthquake happened during filming.
So did I 😁 that was my first "real" quake. (Unfortunately, Katrina was my first "real" Hurricane after I moved to the Gulf Coast).
1933
March 10, 1933, along the Newport-Inglewood Fault. More recent studies have speculated that the cause was as a result of oil extraction (subsidence) over a course of 13 years.
That earthquake is how the first seismic building codes came about here in Southern California. It's amazing that no one died during our last 7 earthquake and this is likely because our building codes kept buildings from completely collapsing.
I am a just a bit too young to have been in the 71 Sylmar Quake, but my mom told me about it. She said it flung her right out of bed. We had some family members who were working at the Olive View hospital and couldn't get down from the higher floors because the stairwell fell off of the building. It's crazy that the Northridge Earthquake happened so close to where that one happened and we still didn't get the Big One that we keep expecting.
The biggest earthquake I have been in was Landers and it was also the one with the closest epicenter of all the one's I've felt that were in the 7s. That's the only one that scared me a bit because it got so big and lasted for a relatively long time compared to the other ones. It's also the only earthquake where something fell near me, which was my desk lamp.
I don't know how we'll do when the Big One finally comes but I'm glad we had a few, smaller practice runs because our building codes have gotten a lot better just since I was alive.
Fascinating Horror is a great channel.
He's so consistently good!
My great grandparents survived this Earthquake. I still live in the Bay Area, and most of us know that another one is coming.
We know intellectually, but most of us don't live our lives accordingly in that our level of preparedness is low.
Alaska was an even bigger one.
I bet your great grandparents knew how to pronounce colloquially..
At least California will never bore you to death.
i definitely think about it though i tell myself that it won't happen in my lifetime
This video reminds me of a man who was instrumental in the building of the transcontinental RR in the 1860's. Jack Casement was the leader of the track building effort from Omaha on the UP., to Promontory Summit, UT. Jack's wife was Francis, an original suffragette of Ohio, back in that era. Many years after the "Wedding of the Rails" event of May 10, 1869, Jack and Francis were at the Velodome Hotel in San Jose, 18 April 1906, and were trapped under debris. He suffered 3 fractured ribs, survived, (no fire), until 1909. Quite a story, as Jack had been a Brivette General in the Civil War, and a hero concerning Frankfort, KY. action. Thanks for the opportunity to share, from an "Original Transcon RR" enthusiast, Darrell.
This makes the Earth tremor, which just happened in Cornwall, England, look like a mere ripple. It registered 2.7 on the Richter scale. It sounded like a juggernaut hitting the house by all accounts.
Very interesting video as usual. 😊 Thank you.
Hey, did you hear then about the brand new weight loss clinic and club that just opened for large and overweight women out in California. There was a huge crowd of big ladies on opening day and in their rush to get inside to join to register for the new memberships some women and staff got trampled by the herd. It was so successful that the event registered as a 5.4 on the Richter scale. Oh! the humanity.
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This quake and the Northridge quake were often brought up when I was in school here in LA, and were the reason we practiced earthquake drills often. For those of you who have never experienced one, you sometimes hear the *roar* of the ground moving before you feel it. Closest thing to it would be like a big rig going at full speed past your house.
Oh I remember the Northridge Quake! It wasn't that bad here because I'm further south, plus the Landers Quake had happened two years earlier and not only was that one bigger, but it was much closer to me. That made the Northridge Quake seem less bad to me... until we turned on the TV! That earthquake seems to have taught people so much about how to build a better building that no one even died when we had that 7.1 in Ridgecrest, which is pretty cool! We'll see what happens when we get our truly big one in Southern California but now we have the early warning system so, as long as we don't live right next to the fault, we should have at least a few seconds of warning. In LA, you all might have a couple of minutes since it's about a minute to San Bernardino assuming that the fault starts to break by the Salton Sea.
Great job. A general at the Presidio, a beautiful army fort that overlooked the city, organized his men and had them cut fire breaks around the city. Tents and supplies were set up for people, as you showed. Hot food mess lines were set up, mobile hospitals too. Johnson& Johnson and other companies sent tons of medical supplies,, fruit, food and other needed items. Without being directed. They just did it. Trains came in and citizens from all over the country sent loaves of homemade bread, cakes, pies, fruit, clothes, blankets, toiletries, etc. Also, those wooden homes constructed were designed by a man who had spent time in Antarctica and knew about insulation from cold and had that in mind as he designed them. Some people who lived in them eventually took those homes with them and moved them to land as their permanent homes.
A story in a story in a story! I'd like to read more about the man who designed the wooden temp homes!
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Hi Susan, It was Army General Greely who had previously built shelters in the Arctic. Parks superintendent John McLaren apparently played a huge role as well. And the army and more good people. There were, "refugee," camps throughout SF filled with the white tents that were army issue. I think 20 or 21 camps. By the way in 2020, one of these SF homes or earthquake shacks as some call them sold for $2.3 million. Not as a curiosity, it's been a residence for years. Just want to add that the Presidio general, (Fulton, Fenton?) acted immediately. Did not wait for orders. Assembled his men and took action.❤
I just noticed this channel passed 1mil subscribers. Congrats, man!
I can't remember what documentary it was in, but the rebuild cost of the earthquake and resulting fire included how many horses they knew would be worked to death, something like 15,000. Some aspects of history we don't often think of.
I'd love to hear you cover the first Wall Street bombing 16 September 1920. Thanks for being such a great storyteller.
Another superbly done video!
I have a couple of suggestions for more natural disasters that would be great for your channel-
The Frank Slide
The Great Lakes Storm
The 1900 Galveston Hurricane
The Labor Day hurricane
There will be lots of plice, clapses and clisions in those?
@@Collateralcoffee in English please?
@@saragrant9749 He's mocking the often appalling pronunciation of words by the narrator.
@@leftpastsaturn67 oh ok, so he’s being a selfish toddler… gotcha. Thanks for the explanation!
@@saragrant9749 'Selfish'?
I'm not sure you know how to use that word in the correct context, but sure, you keep crying about it.
Very interesting and informational videos, keep up the great work ! 👍
Enrico Caruso’s personal account of the earthquake is incredible. He was a famous opera singer in 1906.
He is to opera, what Andres Segovia is to the classical guitar. The Maestro.
If I remember correctly the video you showed at the beginning of the camera following the horse drawn cart was determined to have been shot the day before the quake.
Someone mounted a camera (a novel invention for the time) on a streetcar and it filmed until the car came to the end of its line.
Pictures of the buildings on this exact street were taken after the quake with no one knowing about the film.
It’s somewhere here on TH-cam. I’ve seen it and it shows the film in its entirety then shows the same area after.
I'll have to look for that.
I’ve seen that film. Amazing what was done to figure out what day it was taken.
could you cover the christchurch new zealand 2011 earthquake?
That’s an excellent suggestion 👍
Great video, Earthquakes can happen at any point in a area with a fault line
If I recall correctly this was also before they added the smell to gas lines so people really didn’t know about the danger about lighting fires in the aftermath
The Cajon Pass in Southern California is a striking result and visual geographical representation of the presence and power of the San Andres Fault. The U.S. Interstate 15 traverses right through it.
It's very beautiful there and it's interesting to notice that there are waterfalls that are sometimes flowing and sometimes dry there. I have done some hiking in the areas and these waterfalls tend to come out of the fault. It doesn't seem to cause earthquakes since there hasn't been one there since 1857, but it is still both interesting and beautiful.
It's not the rubbing that causes a large earthquake. Usually, it's when the plates are not moving and are stuck. Once enough pressure builds, the plates will, sometimes with great pressure, and sometimes violently, snap past the point where they were stuck. Yes, most of the time, they just slide and cause smaller quakes, but it's the ones that become stuck that usually cause the bigger ones. The fracture zone north of there has been stuck for a long time and is over due for a huge quake that will, let's just say, be very, very bad when it finally has enough pressure to become unstuck.
Istg you make the most interesting videos, so informative. Honestly I don't see many earthquakes in Cali or San Fran, so hearing about this is interesting! Thank you for making these videos.
I think it’s been something like…less than 10 quakes that were strong enough to even feel in like, the last decade?
@@RoseRitonya Ah okay, I’m not too up to date especially with American natural disasters anyways since I’m from a different country. But that’s actually interesting.
I lived in SF for a year and of course did some reading on earthquake preparedness while there. I was not ready for what I read. Since 1906 SF has added landmass in the form of recycled refuse, creating new districts entirely built on, essentially, trash. Some experts believe that in a big enough quake, the refuse will vibrate apart and “liquify” allowing the buildings on top to sink into the bay. My apartment was built on one of those zones. And they say we’re overdue for another 1906… Never living there again :)
They had that problem during the 1989 earthquake. I'd like to say that they've started building buildings with better foundations in that bay fill but the Millennium Tower gives me doubts. However, there's a difference between a very tall building built on that fill and shorter buildings built on it. If your apartment complex is shorter and especially if it was built after the 1989 earthquake, you should be fine. If it was even built before 1989, maybe it's still okay since it withstood that earthquake. Remember that some people even survived in collapsed buildings during that earthquake and were rescued. While that's not ideal, if you get rescued, you get rescued.
i got home from a day trip to sf an hour before this was posted where we had talked about this earthquake earlier in the day... crazy timing lol
In the book The Great Frisco Quake the violent rip went so fast from Point Reyes to Fresno and San Quentin it was on the city in less than sixty seconds from its outset, reforming the whole southern California coast in the process. Carusos giant collection of expensive boots neatly sailed across his hotel suite.
It’s always a worry for me that “the big one” will happen as I’m on a bridge or overpass in SF
Or standing in human poop
Same, I know they should be able to withstand it decently well at this point especially the bay bridge cause it's so new but I'm so paranoid each time driving across the bridge to sf
I can relate, because that’s exactly what happened to my brother-in-law during the earthquake on October 17, 1989, as he was crossing the Bay Bridge on his way home from work. It was a total crapshoot that day, as far as who made it home and who didn’t; he made it home, but dozens of others did not. Even after more than 30 years, he’s still nervous every minute he’s on a bridge or an overpass, or he’s stuck under an overpass during a red light. Mother Nature will always have the upper hand, regardless of the technological advances of us mortals, right?! Stay safe out there 🙏🏻
@@munky123jwSeriously?? You’ve littered this entire comments section with your adolescent ‘poop’ remarks; it makes me wonder if your parents know you’re up so far past your bedtime on a school night 🙄
@@bunnyduncan of course. The city is a dumpster fire. Just want to embarrass you for your disgusting city.
Another great documentary. Thank you for the hard work and sharing.
Really great research and information.
Great episode! I loved seeing the photos and cine film. Truly fascinating horror.
Thanks so much buddy for another fine video. By far and away my favourite channel. Consistently amazing, actually wow so amaze 😜👌🏽❤️
All of your videos are great! It's amazing the amount of research you do to make each one!
Reading Wikipedia is hard work apparently :D
I love the history surrounding the Quake. So much devastation but so much pride and perseverance after the disaster. I'm actually the proud owner of 2 window panes that survived the quake and fire. They are both stained glass address windows people would have above their front doors. You can see how the heat from the fire warped the stained glass. They are amazing pieces of history and great conversation pieces.
That's awesome!
"[the next quake] should be nowhere as destructive as the quake that changed the face of the city in 1906"
The population density is way higher, the buildings are taller, and if this channel has taught me anything, it's that building codes and lives mean nothing when there's a nickel to be saved by construction companies.
Also can we stop and consider the immensity of the land moving 6 meters in under a minute.Not sure how ANY building on top of that, or the resulting sinkholes could possibly survive.
My grandfather on my dad's side came to SF as a teenaged Chinese sojourner and survived the 1906 quake.
Another marvelous job. Thanks for all these fascinating videos! Cheers Pat in New Jersey
The 1936 Clark Gable film 'San Francisco' uses the quake as a backdrop plot device. The special effects are quite good.
Love him. I'll have to check it out. Thanks.
Love the channel, keep up the good work 👍
Great to see a story about that quake in San francisco.
Would it be possible to have a playlist of all your videos? I listen to your channel as I work and find it very interesting. Thank you for all you do!
There should be a list on the channel page.
I survived the last major earthquake in California in 1989. I was 9 years old when the Loma Prieta earthquake hit which collapsed the Bay Bridge. I was standing in the elevator at my psychologist's office in San Ramon after just having finished my session with him. The entire building started to roll as it had been built with the latest earthquake resistant technology and was made to roll in the event of an earthquake. It was a rather scary feeling being tossed about in a small confined space.
I came home to find my books flown off my hutch in my room and my normally clean room trashed.
I still remember it vividly to this day. Though I was never in any danger, it did some structural damage to our swimming pool. That isn't uncommon though when you live along the San Andreas fault line, though. When the next "big one" hits, I will just hear about it on the news because I am far away from my home state.
That would make me turn right around and reenter my psychologist's office! I hope whatever was troubling you is past!
Very interesting, thank you!
One of my favorite 1906 quake stories is about the Hotaling Building, a liquor storehouse owned by merchant Anson Hotaling and one of the few buildings to survive the quake and fire. Religious zealots blaming disasters on lack of adherence to their dogma are nothing new, and in response to such claims, poet Charles K. Field wrote:
"If, as they say, God spanked the town
for being over-frisky,
why did He burn His churches down
and spare Hotaling's whiskey?"
Having grown up in the San Francisco Bay Area (and experienced three of the big, deadly quakes that have occurred in CA over the past 3.5 decades), I can't express how stressful it is during the first shock, waiting to find out if it's going to get bigger (it always does) and just how big it will be and how long it will last. Every first-shake could be The Big One, and when you grow up with that warning you just always mentally map what you will do as the shaking gets worse and you start to hear your belongings fall and shatter ... I can't even imagine what it would have been like for people a century plus ago, not having public information available regarding what to do (and what NOT to do).
I just have to say that I have been subscribed to your channel now for years and the content that you produce is so very educational. Thank you so much for creating, compiling, doing the research and posting. I get a great deal of enrichment in watching every new video that you post. :) DM.
You should do a video on the 1952 earthquake in Kern County (Bakersfield) California. It is definitely a historic natural disaster that reshaped the city of Bakersfield, yet the people came together and rebuilt.
Thanks for covering this! I live in San Francisco in an area that was completely destroyed by the fire. My building was built in 1913 on the site of a social hall that was destroyed in the quake. It's amazing how quickly SF was rebuilt, but I've also read that in order to get funding for reconstruction, the city deliberately downplayed the number of people killed. It's weird to wonder whether anyone was killed directly on the site my apartment building occupies...
Damnit man!!
You're keeping me awake!
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Watch your profanity
@@cuhgaming4943 dude you're on the internet, get real.
Really appreciate you covering this. I grew around the Sf Bay Area and we’ve learnt about the 1906 and 1989 earthquakes our whole life. So many little remnants of the disaster still exist today.
My late Grandad; (1890-1990) lived in Clearlake Ca with his family in 1906. He was 16 when the San Francisco Earthquake struck. He told me a story about that first night after the Earthquake. He was able to read the Newspaper at night, with no other source of light except the massive fire/ firelight burning from San Francisco two hours away from where he was in Clearlake.😳
I went to sfsu and lived in the city for 5 years…regardless of political views the city itself is beautiful and so rich in culture and history, as is the surrounding areas. Definitely a special place ♥️ I miss it sometimes
San Fransisco has had another very large, devistating earthquake. 1989, the World Series Earthquake. Highly recommend the ESPN 30/30 special, the day the series stopped. Having survived it myself, i wish that quake would have been mentioned in video
If he hasn't covered it already, he most certainly will someday. Across the nation, I was watching the game on TV and vividly remember that moment as my brother lived in Sacramento and I had no way of knowing if they were safe. It brought forth a new level of seismic engineering in destroying a lot of structure which had been thought to be 'earthquake-proof'.
The infamous Loma Prieta quake... I think about that one every now and then. It's wild to me that the World Series unintentionally saved many lives in that quake because people who otherwise would have been driving across the double decker bridge that pancaked in the quake instead were at Candlestick Park or stayed at their workplaces to watch the game.
@@ClefairyRox agree, the series saved a lot of lives
My great-grandmother and her family survived this. Thank you for sharing this footage.
It's always made me angry that there was such a push to 'get life back to normal' that the homes and businesses they quickly rebuilt were actually less safe in earthquakes than the buildings that had just been destroyed were. Humans just don't learn.
As we saw with the temporary housing after hurricane Katrina, the need for immediacy often overcomes best practices and that people are quick to forget.
They do.
Afyer being hit by multiple of the same disasters, and officials worry about revoltes, or being voted out ofoffice, more then the buisnesses,economics and investments futur investors will make.
And instead focus on preventing another disaster like this.
Yes. People should just have just stayed homeless until we figured out how to make earthquake-proof buildings.
@@tehbonehead ....do you really think those are the ONLY two options?
@@piperbird7193 oh, right. So absolutely nothing, or absolutely everything... and they chose something in between. Amazing, huh?
Another great video! Could you do a video on the Transbay Tube fire in 1979? A BART train caught fire in the underwater tunnel that runs under the San Francisco Bay, and many people don’t know about it.
So excited to wake up and find fascinating horror did a video on the San Francisco earthquake. Love this channel!!
Always impressed with these videos; the San Francisco earthquake is infamous but learning ground shifted almost 20 feet. Wow!
Love an early morning fascinatingly horrific upload.
I really appreciate you as a storyteller 😮😮😮😮
Is this what took down some of the Winchester mystery house?
Yes, it is what damaged the house and trapped Sara for days.
In middle school, a teacher read a book about this event to the class. Made an impact on me on both my understanding of history and on book reading. I've since read books to others.
This is why I would avoid at all possible costs no matter what living in an earthquake-prone area. An entire city can be reduced to rubbles and thousands lose their lives in mere seconds from a natural disaster that is impossible to prevent, or predict when it's gonna happen. It's scary.
Natural disasters happen everywhere. Tornadoes kill hundreds of people a year. A hurricane can wipe a coastline clean of life in an hour. Flash floods and wildfires cause billions of dollars in damages, and have their own lethality count. Recent blizzards have had quite a death toll, too. And all of these happen like clockwork every year.
Massive earthquakes happen once a century or even less. Many people consider it a decent tradeoff to avoid the other things. No place on this planet is entirely safe.
Every place has its plusses and minuses. As someone who grew up in western NY, I have loved these 10 years of living in the Bay Area!
@@Ddrhl Every place has its plusses and minuses, yes. But some have more minuses than others....
Pick a spot on the globe. There's probably something in one shape or form that is "impossible to prevent or predict" or multiple if you get real lucky! Regarding earthquakes specifically, we also have these things called "building codes" now and don't build on landfill anymore. You're more likely to die in an auto accident than an earthquake.
South Carolina resident here. South Carolina has a fault or two and I've certainly experienced a couple of earthquakes, but they in no way resemble California earthquakes. One of the ones I experienced felt and sounded like a truck had backed hard into the building I was in. I was sitting in my car at a Sonic during another one when my car started bouncing up and down a bit. I looked behind me because I thought someone was bouncing my rear bumper, but no one was there. On my way back to the office from lunch, I heard on the radio that it was an earthquake. All that to say you never know what might happen. We're more likely to get damage from tornados and hurricanes here, but no place is totally safe.
Us up here in the redwood curtain of Northern California just had an earthquake in Dec 2022 that severely damaged a smaller town at the epicenter, and it was a serious wake-up call for us to be more prepared. i took a class in college here called Earthquake Country that explains how seriously inundated CA is with fault lines, esp Humboldt County……. and i am absolutely terrified of what is to happen when The Big One finally hits.
Our buildings are very well built. You will almost certainly be just fine and even your building will almost certainly be just fine. I have been in four earthquakes in the 7s and was completely fine. The only thing that ever fell was my desk lamp during the 7.3 that happened 50 miles away when I was a kid. Even if you are particularly unlucky and the epicenter is right by your building, the building will almost certainly be a place where you will survive if you get under something, even if the building gets destroyed. It sucks if a building gets destroyed but our buildings are designed so that the people inside them will almost certainly survive even if the building has to later be demolished.
Yes, buildings make scary sounds during earthquakes and there's always that fear about the earthquake getting bigger, whether the building will collapse, and whether the earthquake will ever stop shaking, but we all feel that sometimes and it's been fine for nearly all of us who have felt that way. With all the improved building codes, earthquakes are basically just psychologically scary and not generally a physical threat unless you don't get under something and things fall off a shelf onto your head or something. When the next earthquake happens, get under something and remember that you will almost certainly be fine and the shaking will end.
The most scary thing about earthquakes is the complete randomness that they occur so there's no prior warning so you could be just walking down the street minding your own business and the ground opens up from underneath you thats a truly horrific thought
Wow! Another great video. If you're looking for ideas, you should do a video over the Galveston Storm of 1900. Deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history
It would have been helpful to include that while 1989 happened, it was TINY compared to 1906. 1906 was about an 8.0 vs 1989 about a 7.0, the energy release was different by about a factor of 16.
Many people think 1989 was big, it wasn't. Much of the Bay Bridge would have been in the water with one more big jolt: every section of the (now removed) 288ft Oakland side broke loose from it's mounts and started sliding down the hill, only one part slid far enough to fall.