Survivors of the San Fransisco Earthquake

[Lauren]

A little pre golden era, but here's a video on MSN with two survivors of the San Fransisco eathquake of 1906.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12317083/

 

[jamespowers]

A little pre golden era, but here's a video on MSN with two survivors of the San Fransisco eathquake of 1906.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12317083/

Wow! Those people are in pretty good shape for their age. Its good to see that. The 103 year old man still works! It makes getting old not sound so bad.
We are sort of inundated with Great Quake news here. My grandfather was in Pleasanton at the time. Even there it was felt. Fences that traversed a fault were torn in half. One side could be ten feet away from the other that it broke away from. They say the ground was like waves on the sea. Not likely something I want to go through.

regards,

J

 

[Marc Chevalier]

What's not generally known in America is that only four months after the '06 San Francisco earthquake, a devastating 8.6 magnitude earthquake wiped out Valparaiso, Chile, which was the most important Pacific coast port after San Francisco. The Valparaiso earthquake and resulting fires left over 3,000 people dead, damaged much of central Chile and was felt from Peru to Argentina. Coincidence?


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[Lincsong]

Considering that the entire Pacific Rim

What's not generally known in America is that only four months after the '06 San Francisco earthquake, a devastating 8.6 magnitude earthquake wiped out Valparaiso, Chile, which was the most important Pacific coast port after San Francisco. The Valparaiso earthquake and resulting fires left over 3,000 people dead, damaged much of central Chile and was felt from Peru to Argentina. Coincidence?

lies on geographic plates that are moving on molten lava, I wouldn't say it was coincidental. The 1964 Anchorage earthquake was bigger than the San Francisco. Do the people of Valparaiso know of the San Francisco earthquake?

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Do the people of Valparaiso know of the San Francisco earthquake?

They knew of it in 1906, and they know of it today. Chileans are news junkies and always have been.