San Francisco 1906: The Earthquake and the Four-Day Fire

At twelve minutes past five on the morning of April 18, 1906, the San Andreas Fault moved, and about forty-two seconds of strong shaking broke San Francisco. Then came four days and nights of fire. This is the story on real maps and photographs: the fault beneath the city, the fire chief lost in the first moments, the dynamite, the undercounted dead, and a city largely rebuilt by 1915. 0:00 Intro 0:37 The Gateway to the Pacific 1:39 Two Plates, One Fault 3:04 Decades of Small Shakes 3:50 Forty-Two Seconds 6:17 Four Days of Fire 9:12 The Undercount 11:23 Rise From the Ashes Sources: 1906 San Francisco earthquake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_Sa... Maps: NASA Blue Marble Next Generation imagery and Natural Earth linework (both public domain). Street lines: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright Photographs and maps (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons): The New York Times (U.S., 1906); Chadwick, H. D; en:User:Paul.h; Lester C. Guernsey; George W. Haley; Arnold Genthe; George R. Lawrence (1869-1938), George R. Lawrence Co; Original Photographer: Chadwick, H. D. (US Gov War Department. Office of the Chief Signal Officer.) Edits by: Durova; Eugene Schmitz; Willard E. Worden. Elena.laps (CC BY 4.0): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... (licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Elena.laps (CC BY 4.0): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... (licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Narration, maps, diagrams and music made for Calamity Atlas. #history #disaster #documentary #weather