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?
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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 -
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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)
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