San Francisco 1906 earthquake information

San Francisco 1906 earthquake information
Information on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, including epicenter and rupture extent, shake map, surface geology, fault and shaking photographs, and eyewitness accounts. Also the case study areas for the Unit 2 prework.

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Provenance
Created by Peter Selkin, University of Washington-Tacoma Campus, updated by Laurel Goodell, Princeton University July 2024.

Sources for GE layers:

1906 Epicenter
Epicenter of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. Source: USGS, "The Northern California Earthquake, April 18, 1906
"https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/events/1906calif/virtualtour/earthqua...

1906 Rupture Extent
Extent of the rupture (fault motion) along the San Andreas Fault in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. Source: USGS, "Tour of the Rupture"
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/nca/virtualtour/earthquake.php

Geology
Source: USGS https://earthquake.usgs.gov/education/geologicmaps/geology.php

1906 Shake Map
Perceived shaking during the 1906 earthquake.
Source: USGS,"Modified Mercalli Intensity Maps for the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Plotted in ShakeMap Format"
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1135
kmz format available under "Shaking Intensity" at
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/events/1906calif/virtualtour/earthqua...

Fault and Shaking Photographs
73 photographs taken at known locations, organized into groups showing fault rupture, shaking damage, landslides, and ground failure including liquefaction. From the Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley, which holds the single largest collection of 1906 photographs. Source:https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/events/1906calif/virtualtour/photos.php

1906 Shaking Reports
Individual accounts of the 1906 earthquake.
Source: USGS, "Shaking Intensity"
kmz format available under "Shaking Intensity" at
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/events/1906calif/virtualtour/earthqua...
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