1906 San Francisco

Magnitude: 7.7-7.9

Ignited several fires around the city that burned for three days and destroyed nearly 500 city blocks.  The earthquake and fires killed an estimated 3,000 people and left half of the city’s 400,000 residents homeless.  The largest aftershocks occurred at the ends of the 1906 rupture or away from the rupture entirely; very few significant aftershocks occurred along the main-shock rupture itself.  It generated a tsunami wave only approximately 10 cm in height.

Del Monte (last survivor alive) didn’t remember much about his family’s dramatic escape, but “was told that his mother bundled him up after the shaking stopped and ran out to the street where his father commandeered the rig, which they rode down to the waterfront as flames licked at them from all sides,”. “After being forced out of his home in North Beach after the 1906 Great Earthquake and Fire as an infant, he ultimately witnessed our City’s rise from the ashes more than a century ago seeing it rebuilt better than ever,”.

Rose Barreda: “Many burned-out people passed our house with bundles and ropes around their necks, dragging heavy trunks. From the moment they heard that fatal, heart-rending sound of the trumpet announcing their house would be burned or dynamited, they had to move on or be shot. As the sun set, the black cloud we watched all day became glaringly red, and indeed it was not the reflection of our far-famed Golden Gate sunset.”

After the earthquake had occurred, over 20,000 people were left without a home. The military built 5,610 relief houses to help out the civilians. The houses were packed close to one another, and they charged people $2 a month for rent. Some things that the San Francisco area had to achieve to prevent themselves from another catastrophe, were to redesign so that when it happens, not all buildings would be demolished. They want to issue a standard called shelter-in-place, which means that the house would be damaged, but not enough to where the people cannot live in it anymore.

Temperature Graph

Precipitation Graph

To start off, what I notice in the tropical region is that the climate seems to be increasing but I wouldn’t say they are increasing drastically.  Over the time periods shown precipitation fluctuates and seems to stay close to the same starting average.  Observing the dry region I notice that the climate fluctuates and the precipitation is decreasing making the land more dry.  The the mid temperate region is increasing in climate over the time periods shown and the precipitation is also increasing.  Although they are not drastic changes.  Looking at the snow region the temperature is increasing but I wouldn’t say it is very consistent.  The precipitation is also significantly increasing.  Finally,  observing the polar region, averages seem to have a pattern to them through each period of time, changing by one degree.  The precipitation is increasing and within the last two time periods it has significantly increased.

From my observations I notice more climate change in the colder regions, as well as, the regions with precipitation increased.  Precipitation is usually increased in the snow and polar regions more significantly then the other regions.  They seem to have a pattern each time period and seem to be more sporadic than the other averages from other regions.  Precipitation is increasing in colder zones.  I believe this is because the climate is becoming warmer because of the emissions getting trapped in the atmosphere.  Perhaps, these are the reasons that the ice caps are melting rapidly and places like America and Trump feel like climate change is not present because their region isn’t facing it as prominent as others.

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