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SUNDAY. APRIL 21. 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON San Francisco Now Preoared in Case of Another Earthquake nnu un im . i,on iu n( . miinnn i hnriv ..teni. i uilinil. (h. "an Pra nr i vrr, ! in rrri-ihrarM San Vranrkin aurainst i tnsiirp that water will not be I Gas lines have been laid I has been building up tension ! s stem, ' of a great earthquake," By DON MILLEN Untied Prtii International San Francisco - tUPD - Is the Golden Gate City pre pared for another earthquake packing the force of the 1906 disaster? It certainly wasn't on April 18, 57 years ago when the San Andreas Fault lurched with a terrifying suddenness and caught San Franciscans in their beds. "The city's entire business district, along with three fifths of her houses and lodg ings were cither ripped by the quake or consumed in the fires which followed. Its human tool was 542 dead, countless injured arid more than a quarter of a million homeless. Today the lesson has been well learned and San Fran cisco is braced, but the still active San Andreas Fault lies nearby, just missing San Francisco. The 1006 quake struck at 5:15 on a week day morning, when streets were empty and downtown businesses desert ed. Chilling Thought What if a similar quake struck at noon in the middle of the week? It is a chilling thought. Con servative estimates of injuries run as high as 16,000. No- hnriv wants In estimate the deaths which might occur. Karl V. Steinbrugge, noted structural engineer and sec retary of the Seismological So ciety of America, points out that even if San Francisco was struck by an earthquake of the magnitude nf 1906, its intensity would be much low er. "The magnitude is the pow er generated by the quake, but the intensity is its effect on manmadc structures," he explained. "If you design structures in preparation for a quake of large magnitude its intensity naturally will not be as great as its effect on haphazard building San Francisco is in nret-! braced San Francisco against I insure that water will not be ly good shape.'' all but the strongest quakes, j cut off because of a break in A uiuuii me niKiKe n unit) i ne cuv nas aunucaiea us1 al'J i . . . . , toppled or damaged m a n y ! main water supply lines. One1 In addition, dozens of cis- . 01 hundreds ot valves, buildings, it was the fire that ! runs into town in an east- s terns containing thousands of limiting the chance ot a gas caused most of the destruc-1 west direction, the other is gallons of water have been j fire. tion when main water lines 1 laid north-south, in the event : built under strategic intersec-! What arc the chances for burst. of ground shocks coming from lions. Two huge pumping sla- i another big earthquake? llfAAaf tn,,.,t, I ,1,,,.. r, lh ll,,.r rflliMtlfM A t.nnc huUf hfPtl illt f-C rilOdV knOWS. rCall. OUl rieid insneetion and imnrnved eomnlex svslem of water niDes fire fighting methods have i and valves within the city i water from the bay AFTER QUAKE, FIRE This is the view, 1906 earthquake and fire, which wiped out looking west up Market st., from the Ferry large sections of the city. (UPI) building tower in San Francisco after the - ..'.... ' SAME DOWNTOWN AREA Today the quake and fire, shows no remaining scars, same downtown section of Sun Francisco, Thursday was the 57th anniversary of the which was destroyed in the 1906 earth- disaster. (UPI) Speech Contest Set by Knights This is the, best way for ' vacation travel! tit Ctntinintal Ttnlways Touri. ".. "pleasure plan" your vacation. Conti nent! Tialhtiya takes can ot all tna details in advance note! leservalmns. 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