The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
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@Geographics can you fit factorial history of cannabis/industrial cannabis ("hemp" especially hemp) and it's environmental necessity.... Into one of your channels/programs? It's a near perfect replacement for fossil fuels based products without the impact.
Or even I've somehow missed it, is there a video where you've already covered the topic? Cheers and keep up the excellent pieces, even if you don't see this.
Hey have you guys ever considerede making a video about the ezo republic? I think it would be a pretty interesting topic for a video.
Most of this stuff is lifted verbatim from Wikipedia, so could you spend a little time listing the main data points? Otherwise we could just read wiki and avoid the commercials
The 1994 Northridge earthquake was a 6.7, there was a 7.1 earthquake in 1999 at the Hector Mine
Suggestion - The New Madrid Fault Line
My grandfather was an attorney in San Francisco in 1906. He had been to see Caruso at the SF Opera House with family members on the evening before the quake. After the performance, he escorted his mother and sister home to Oakland via ferry then returned to the City by the same route. It was quite late when he returned to his apartment and he had only been asleep for a couple of hours when the quake hit. Quickly grabbing clothing that was at hand, he was able to escape his building wearing his opera cape, top hat and cane over his pajamas. He was fortunate to have family in Chico where he was able to stay and where he soon relocated himself and his practice permanently. Those garments remain as a tangible reminder that life can be unpredictable, among other things.
That's nuts, I'm so glad he survived.
Does the family still have these items? You seem to imply this. If so that’s amazing.
Opera cape and top hat over pajamas? Sounds like the attire of a very dapper napper.
The comedian/actress, Gracie Allen, was a young girl living in San Francisco in 1906 when the quake hit. Subsequently, her birth certificate (like so many others) was destroyed. In later years, the actress would claim to being younger than she actually was since there was no longer evidence of her true age.
The great Italian opera singer Caruso was caught up in the quake. He grabbed the only thing he could - a photo signed by the President - which he was able to use to establish his identity to enable him to get away.
@@franl155 "to use to establish his identity" Had he never heard of Nick Rivers (not Mel Torme) ?
@@PMA65537 - this was 1906. I doubt that either of the two people you name were around then.
ps I've never heard of Nick Rivers either
The trickster
@@franl155 Character played by Val Kilmer in the 1984 goofball comedy film "Top Secret." His dad thought of his first name while he was shaving one morning.
It’s Pre-sid-eee-oh.
There’s a gold painted fire hydrant near Dolores Park that was one of the only to stay active, and it saved the neighborhood from destruction
With emphasis on the second syllable.
cringed every time he said it. _preh_-*SEE*-dee-oh
Came to the comments to say this
I literally was about to say this lol
Interesting I live not far from there and have never seen or heard of that. Will check it out thanks !
Born and raised in San Jose and I was outside playing catch with another kid in my babysitters front yard waiting on the world series to start when the Loma Prieta quake hit. The quake hit while the football we were throwing around was in the air and a ball that was coming straight at me ended up 15 feet to my left as tje entire world lurched around. Watching the ground become wavy and moving around was something I can still play crystal clear in my mind to this day. The awesome power of it all loses something when put into words. I remember coming home to giant cracks in the living room and a bedroom walls with the aftershocks just pounding away all night and into the next day. My father, my grandmother, and I sat together that whole night glued to the TV watching all the news feeds rockin and rollin to those afterhocks. What an experience.
I was in Union City when the quake hit. I happened to be outside my friends house. I saw the street move like waves and felt a sensation like being in a small boat in choppy water.
I was in the Big Sur..the redwoods swayed and hills shed rocks and gravel..
I was at work in a plant right next to the PG&E power plant in Moss Landing. Those 500' tall stacks moved so much they were actually crossing at the top, and had they been aligned a little differently, they would have smacked each other.
Check out Valdez, 1964.
Simon's beard has ascended to 18th century sailor levels
It's a mess in this video, it needs trimming
Omg it is 18th century sailors 😲😲😲
Simon! You should do a mega project video on that beard.
Or the Third Age of Middle Earth wizard levels.
I'm actually ok with the pirate beard look. Is that the bed beard look?
“Despite the danger, 90% of buildings in the state are not insured for earthquake damage” ..the most WTF fact I’ve learned in a long time.
Which means that we, like those before us, will be setting fire to our collapsed buildings
Well it’s not like you can insure your house in Florida for hurricanes either. I think the state runs that.
it's expensive AF to get insured for it (at least my experience getting a quote in Washington state, which is also due for a major quake)
Yea they are not insured because the insurance wont touch em with a 10 foot pole. Like getting flood insurance after building your house below a flood plain. Insurance companies are smarter than that, this 1906 quake taught em that
Cos they want your money mate. They aint giving out shit during a disaster lmao "watch em burn" is their attitude
My grandpa was a small boy in '06. I once asked him what his earliest memory was. He said he was outside playing and wondered why the chimney was falling down.
An interesting effect of the rebuilding that you can still see today is that in the wealthiest neighborhoods you see houses with uneven burnt and damaged bricks. These were the first houses rebuilt using bricks from the rubble. Nob Hill is one place you can go to see this.
Now that's an awesome piece of information 👍
@@southaussielad2496 it really is.
Can we just appreciate the old timey movies showing drivers have always been crazy?
This is why I hope that flying cars never become a thing. People can't even be trusted to drive on the ground
yeeah there where 0 laws regarding the use of the streets in those days!
you could basically drive however you wanted in the early days of the "Horseless Carriage".
@@mho... I saw this vid of a major intersection in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. They have no real traffic laws there and no stoplights or anything. It was incredible and really makes you appreciate the fact that we have traffic laws. I imagine thats what traffic was like in the olden days.
Right!?! I saw that and was like, holy smokes these people are nuts the way they we’re driving. And I thought the people here were reckless
After my dad, a Vietnam vet who spent many evenings in Saigon, drove through Kelley Square in Worcester, MA the first time, he said it was the worst intersection he'd seen Since Saigon. It isn't all peaches and cream here either.
Much of the wood used to rebuild San Francisco after the 1906 Earthquake and Fire came from the area I grew up in. That was Grays Harbor, on the Pacific Coast in Washington state. Multiple shipyards built wooden framed steam and sailing ships that carried millions of board feet of old growth lumber. I’ve seen photographs of ships that had loads of lumber stacked high upon their decks heading south to California.
Tnx 4 history
I didnt know that
Wish i had seen those great pics
Gotta love Aberdeen.
@Van Maiorano Yes
@@PunaSquirrel he said ironically (?) Lol
And where I grew up (Fairfield, CA) is where San Francisco got most of the stone for it's sidewalks during the rebuilding
My youngest daughter was stationed at Okinawa, as her first Marine duty station. We live in Idaho, so she had never felt an earthquake before. Oki is an old island and built to withstand earthquakes, typhoons & tsunamis. She experienced all three in her two years there, including a cat 5 going right over the island. Then she was stationed at Miramar in San Diego. She was a pro by then. My oldest daughter is a rappeller on a Forest Service helitack crew aka wildland firefighter. She was rappelling into a fire, when an earthquake hit. She said it was weird, hanging in the air and watching everything below her move. They guys in the helicopter stopped her and she had to hang there for at least a minute, until they were sure the ground was done shaking. Luckily, she was above the tree line, or she would have got hit by a moving tree & probably tangled in it. She doesn't like going to forest fires in Cali any more.
My ggg grandmother, Fannie Bornstein, was injured with a broken hip and arm that day when her apartment in the Tenderloin District collapsed. She lived until early September when she died in a tent hospital.
The original City Hall of San Francisco was destroyed in the 1906 quake and the new one was built two blocks away, being commissioned in 1912, and opened in 1916. This building had its dome damaged which twisted around 4 inches in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and had significant base isolation retrofitting done to it in 1999.
My mother was in an office conference room on Gough Street with a bunch of New Jersey executives for a Big Presentation when a not-quite five point hit. The executives froze in their chairs. Mom casually leaned on a credenza. Other San Franciscans gravitated subtly toward solid furniture items. The shaking stopped almost immediately.
The analyst then presenting leaned on his pointer stick (this was in the 70s,) gazed tolerantly at the execs, and asked, "would anyone like to panic?" Not knowing what to look for, the executives thought the locals hadn't reacted at all, and were determined not to be outdone by a bunch of panty-waisted Californians, and indicated they were good.
Big Presentation continued without incident, and their project got fully funded. No one from New Jersey ever visited that office again.
Thank you for that story, it was enjoyable. I love hearing about people that were part of an incident like that. Stay safe!
@@patricialessard8651 thank you! I'm proud to say I carried on the family tradition decades later in rural Georgia near the Alabama border. The 2001 day I started work in the call center, there had been a pre-dawn intraplate earthquake that had everyone in a genteel southern uproar. One of the floor analysts stopped by to make sure I was okay in the wake of (iirc) a 5.2 earthquake.
Earthquake? I asked. Yes! came the response. Five point two! It was the strongest in living memory.
"Oh," I replied politely in my flattest Bay Area accent, "Californians don't wake up for anything under six."
It was like arriving at prison and knocking out the biggest bad in the yard. My reputation was made (for at least a week.)
@@justalurkr LMAO As a native San Franciscan who has lived all over the country, this kind of flex is just so much fun. Telling them that I had lived in a house that predated the '06 quake, not to mention having lived through the Loma Prieta quake in '89, and not even noticing the little ones.
It's amazing how big the eyes of people from the east coast can get.
@@blueashke OMG Loma Prieta! I was on a business trip in Boston when that happened and had to call my parents RIGHT NOW IMMEDIATELY from a hotel room at two in the morning because I just KNEW my parents had chosen that day to visit the City. Of course phone lines were a hot mess! My parents were extremely patient with me when I finally got through; obviously I'd been out of state too long to get that upset.
I live in Chile so i know too well that feeling of being under the fear of a huge earthquake that can happen at any moment.
California native here. Yes we all live in fear of the big one, and giggle at the sight of tourists from places that don't get much in the way of quakes being terrified at a 4.0 or less. But the inevitable big one that happens once a century or so is far preferable, at least to me, than the annual fear of hurricanes or tornadoes. Most quakes can be withstood by structures these days, but nothing short of a bomb shelter is surviving a tornado driving right over it and a hurricane will level pretty much everything it hits. And due to the type of fault the San Andreas is, a strike-slip is the proper term, it doesn't make volcanoes either so don't have that to worry about.
So one day we'll all be thrown to our feet and watch buildings come crashing down. But there's some peace of mind in knowing that it's a surprise and everything that can be done to prepare pretty much has been.
You remind me of the man who fell from a 50-story building. As he passed each floor, he said, "So far, so good."
I think the state will be over run by homeless and drug addicts by the time the big one hits. California will be resolved of one of its big public health crisis to date.
@@hardbrocklife I'm guessing wherever you live isn't 70 in the winter time so it's probably not as appealing to people that sleep outside. It's really nice for people to point their finger at California and claim we're doing such a horrible job with homelessness until they realize that they don't have a homeless problem because all their homeless came here to survive! Talking all that shit...
At least with Hurricanes, you can see them coming days ahead.
Wow been through all three
Twisters quakes n hurricanes
Lots of them
None bothers me much
Didnt like the land moving in quakes felt wrong
. We get warnings 4 other 2
Just an FYI - "the Big One" applies to the entire west coast. It's not San Andreas that we're worried about, it's the Cascadia Subduction Zone that runs along the entire west coast of the northern* US. The subduction zone is long overdue for a big one. A very, very, big one.
edit: forgot an important word whoops
And if that goes off there's another super big fault that the San Andreas fault is a part of that runs south into Mexico that will end up going off as part of a chain reaction, or could even cause the reverse to happen where the Mexican fault goes off causing the Cascadia to go off. Cant remember what the name of the one in Mexico is called it was on an episode of What On Earth on Science channel
When the big one hits it will be known as the big flush of poop city.
I am sorry for you all living down there . I hope and pray that never happens to you all good people.
There’s only one U.S. But the northwestern region of the United States is a little more precise.
Simon has already done an episode about Cascadia.Wad very interesting. Look it up
My family moved to San Francisco in the late 1800s, and I own an antique loveseat that belonged to them and survived the earthquake and fire. Most of my family and relatives moved away from San Francisco over time, leaving me the sole member remaining for a long, long time which is why the loveseat was eventually passed down to me. Alas, I finally left SF 2 years ago, and now the loveseat is here with me in Europe.
What part of sf u from?
1800's? Are you an immortal?
Similar Insurance trick in Hawaii. They plant small groves of trees on the side of their house facing the nearest volcano, as Insurance there doesn't cover lava damage.
My great grandfather was living in San Francisco during the earthquake. He never talked about his past but he would always tell stories of the earthquake, he was 18. He ultimate left San Francisco and eventually ended up in Canada his brother left and went to Australia they never saw each other again. When I think about it if the earthquake hadn't happened my family may not exist.
There's another reason why the city is so small in comparison to others: the city and county have the same boundaries, so there's no room to grow. It's had, basically, the same population since the 1930's... but the rest of the bay area has an enormous population.
Yup. San Jose had like 60k in 1930. Now its over a million.
Was going to basically say the same thing. San Fran's days as the largest city on the west coast were always numbered because they are a peninsula with no room to expand. Sure, the 1906 quake sped things up, but it was going to happen eventually, and they'll continue to drop down the list as time goes on. If anyone wants a good example of urban sprawl, look at Los Angeles - San Diego - Tijuana. You can start in the San Fernando Valley, north of LA, and head south until you pass Tijuana, Mexico. If it weren't for Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base preserving nature, you'd be able to drive and never leave an urban environment in the 170 or so miles you travelled. That's some serious sprawl.
Yeah land is the major constraint when comparing the population growth of SF to LA or SJ.
I read that, ironically, the worst-affected part of San Francisco in the next big earthquake was the landfill that had been dumped in the Bay from the 1906 quake, which had since been built on.
In San Francisco after the 1989 quake the fire department started the Neighborhood Emergency Response Teams. Volunteers train to help the fire department in a disaster. The first responders will be overrun and will need volunteers. Living on shaky land I think makes us more community oriented. We fight all disasters including Covid together. Because in a little city with lots of people jammed onto a peninsula that is very shaky we just have to. We not me
Lmao from California here. And you’re right nobody really pays attention to earthquakes like that. Its like the same as reacting to rain or something😂🤣
I had never heard of San Francisco as "the Paris of the west." You learn something new everyday, especially when you obsess over Simon Whistler. Great video, Geographics team!
As a lifelong Bay Area resident, I've always heard it as "The Athens of The West". Both nicknames may have been in use at various points, though.
Especially now with all the poop and needles on the ground, it’s exactly like paris
most of our cafes, restaurants, and bars even have sidewalk dining these days!
It’s a very popular place among Europeans from what I’ve heard prior to 2020.
Never knew Paris is that much of a shitshow!
Side note, most of the fire department's vehicles were lost from being trapped at their stations. When SFFD needed new trucks, they turned to a local source, Charles S Howard, who gained considerable fortune from sales and later became owner of the horse Seabiscuit. The book of the same name has a chapter devoted to this point. Worth reading!
A extra fact; those rounded looking electric street cars in SF like the yellow one shown in the video were actually former TTC (Toronto Transit Commission)Toronto, ON, Canada street cars that SF purchased from the TTC or their selling intermediary, when the TTC decided to modernize their street car fleet in the late 80's. The were known as Red Rockets colloquially in Toronto due to their crimson red colour scheme of the TTC and in service from roughly the late 50's. I remember riding a few as kid when visiting family in Toronto.
wow. cool!
Yep as most American cities were abandoning their streetcar systems San Francisco was building theirs. Los Angels in the 40s had the largest network which all but vanished by the 60s (Who Framed Rodger Rabbit was set around this era).
SF abandoned a lot of its streetcars and even cable cars, too. The dolled-up historic ones all run on the F Market line. SF's 1950s-era streetcars were known as green torpedoes.
@@ArtamStudio SF Muni (Municipal Railway) ran those same type of street cars as the ones that came from Toronto. I remember riding in them in the 70's. We should have kept them but the planners weren't thinking ahead.
Ah thank you for this information 👏
Rest In Peace to those that passed away.
Just imagine. Everyone who lived in SF that day is now gone.
I think Simon might be more beard than man at this point.
I remember when the quake in '89 happened. I'm in Michigan so the only thing I remember feeling is a disgusting sadness seeing those cars crushed under that highway.
To compound the situation for the worse for San Francisco, the city was also dealing with an epidemic stemming from the bubonic plague, aka the plague that killed half of Europe in the 14th century. This earthquake massively increased the plague's spread.
All the railroads magnates mansions burned down. Hopkins Crocker and all.
Ask a Mortician did a video about that.
Didnt know that
@@lindaarrington9397 me neither, and I grew up near SF 😮
Crazy how the bubonic plague is reappearing in homeless encampments. California is a shitshow now
Hey, Simon 🖐! Could you do a video about Brest in Belarus, please? It has a very interesting history, especially in the 20th century, where the Brest-Litovsk agreement was signed, the Soviet and German armies made a parade together after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and where the Operation Barbarassa started. Thank you.
Isn't that where the erotic journey from Milan to Minsk ended?
Sounds interesting!
General Max Hoffmann held the aces and called the shots.
Belarus breast would probably be a pretty damn good video.
It also has a great article of my stool after mini m&m cookies and Thai green curry. Stay tuned for more
You should do one on the New Madrid Missouri quakes from 1811-12. Estimated to be a 7.6 and 8.0 it’s the sleeping giant in the Midwest that threatens multiple metro areas. Oddly few people even realize that ticking time bomb is there and just how utterly disastrous it will be. Oh, current estimates for damages when it happens again is between 110-120 billion.
And its not if, but when, such an event now would bring this country to its knees and the infrastructure to cope with it would be stretched to its breaking point.
Although I lived through the Lome Prieta quake, living just a few miles from the epicenter, what was by far more devastating was the 2017 housing spike caused primarily by Google opening a new campus in San Jose, that displaced about a million people mostly out of the Bay Area. That catastrophe I didn’t get through and now swelter it out in the Central Valley Sierra foothills, with about 1 in 6 people in the area suffering the same fate. Though the exodus has slowed down somewhat it still continues. Although it might be for the best as the house I was living in the Santa Cruz mountains burned down in one of the many 2020 California wildfires.
The beauty of California and her excellent coastal climate is her biggest downfall.
I was on my way home from the park with my babysitter in Alameda in 1989. My dad had just gotten of of the Cypress structure and Took a break near the grand street dock. My mother was on her way home from a meeting with her manager when the earthquake came I believe she was in Santa Cruz . My dad was cable maintenance for the phone company. He helped set up emergency phones all over Oakland around the cypress structure . My mother was an RN for an insurance company but volunteered to give aid to the overwhelmed hospitals.
Good for Mom!
Californians who have been here a while (I'm 5th generation), have earthquake insurance as well as supplies to last up to three days if 'the big one' strikes. I have water, food, outdoor cooking supplies, camping equipment, etc. The one thing people don't think about is cash and gas. I never let my car get below half a tank and I always have a bunch of cash--in small bills--stashed for such an event. I may not need it, but it gives me peace of mind just in case.
After Katrina I think its better to have 10 days food/water. But 3 days is a good place to start. I'm 100% in agreement with having some cash around. After a quake you know there will be dudes selling food in trucks or carts.
@@clearsmashdrop5829 The recommendation in dense urban areas is three days. That's for a serious major quake. It's a very different dynamic from hurricanes.
Wow! Well done, Simon and Ben. I'd say this is the single greatest well informed and most complete video on everything that happened involving the 1906 San Francisco Quake I've ever seen. I'm impressed!
Man, I've watched every video you've posted today, and.. Wow. You filmed them all at *wildly* different times. Injury. Beard. Shirt. All things change. Nothing is static.
Factboi distort space continuum
One of my highschool teachers was doing a mid term in San Jose State when the Loma Prieta earthquake hit. He said that the building started to shake like if someone was ramming a bulldozer through the building. Parts of the ceiling started to fall and everyone got up and ran. He saw that ground outside roll like a waves from the ocean. Eventually it ended and the mid term was canceled. When he drove home he saw all the houses chimneies in his neighborhood on the ground and cracks on the walls. Today you can hike to the epicenter of the earthquake and there's nothing there just a flat area in the forest with a sign about the earthquake.
My great great grandfather lived through the 1906 quake and my great grandpa had a wall clock, which had fallen to the floor during the quake. It also still worked and I got to wined it up a few times. I also got an original panoramic aerial photo that show blocks completely razed in the foreground with shells of brick buildings and the treasury in the distance.
Growing up in the east bay, I had a children’s book about the 1906 quake. California things… I guess. My great grandma’s house burnt down after the earthquake. A video on Loma Prieta (1989)would also be good! My parents have many stories of that day and it was probably the most recent decent sized earthquake in the Bay.
I remember reading a book as a child about the quake, I wonder if it was the same. All I remember from it was that old book smell and that I loved it. If you ever remember the name please post it.
@@bryannoneya3998 hi, I googled a bit and found it. It’s called if you were alive at the time of the great San Francisco earthquake by Ellen Levine. I believe the publisher is scholastic.
Left out: HUGE water cisterns under intersections for fire fighters access to water when the mains break. You can see the ring of the cistern as wide as the whole intersection lined in brick. Those who don’t know what it’s for must think the giant circle taking up the whole intersection is for looks or something.
The disappointment when a beer freezes after you open it is bad enough. I can’t imagine the contents of a safe bursting of flame
My aunt and uncle were in California for the World Series during the Loma Prieta earthquake. It knocked Jack off the toilet.
Aside from that, they were okay.
I don’t remember a lot of stuff in my life but I still remember that earthquake. Crazy time
I was sitting in the second deck at the Stick. My initial reaction was that it couldn't have been too bad if the stadium was still standing. Fortunately, the Stadium Authority were able to retrofit the stadium the year before.
@@teemusid wasn't there, but I love the bit about the crowd cheering wildly when the shaking stopped!
Insurances didn't cover earthquakes then.
Some people just set their homes ablaze to file claim.
SOME people.
Industrial part of the city was burnt to nothing.
Classic
I was working at Travis Air Force Base when the Loma Prieta quake hit in 1989. This was about 70 miles from the epicenter, and I was working in a new hospital that had been built with the latest (1989) earthquake retrofitting. The 1989 San Francisco fire department ran hoses into San Francisco Bay because the water mains broke and stopped working. I once drove down Lombard Street, fortunately in a car with an automatic transmission.
Born and bred Californian. We’re pretty much told from day one to expect the big one but to try and forget about it because we’ll “probably be okay”
Just watched the Cascadia video last night...
The doom and gloom as of late 😬
The 2014 quake near Napa California, 6.0, woke us up in Pittsburg, CA, about 40 miles away. A few days later I drove on hwy 12 and there was a ridge through the road surface, which I assume was where the fault line was/is. Near Cutting Wharf Rd.
About 4:30 am, right? I was awake reading in Fairfield. My partner woke with a start, I'm like, it's *just* an earthquake...fun times.
@@fauxpinkytoo 3:20 AM PDT. I was awake enough to hear the house creak from the P waves, then the S waves hit and everything was shaking. As you say fun times. 😅
Yep, the double yellow lines shifted there.
I just happened to be awake in San Jose that night. It shook good here but nothing fell off the shelves. I saw everyone suddenly pop online (facebook, messengers, etc) as it woke lots of people awake all over the Bay.
I felt it pretty strongly too, in Benicia; me and my cousin happened to be the only ones in my house still awake playing video games, and at first it seemed like no big deal, but a few seconds after it started it got stronger and stronger, and I panicked thinking it was going to be absolutely huge. Then it ended up being a 6.0 that lasted like, 10-15 seconds, and afterwards we just kept playing video games.
I can't be the only one to notice that beard. I vote we start a petition to see for how long he can grow it out.
Excellent video, I've read about the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake on All Saints Day, that would be a great video for Geographics as well as Port Royal's 1692 earthquake.
If San Francisco is "The Gateway to the West", then London is the capital city of Italy, Simon. That nickname belongs to St. Louis, Missouri, not San Francisco.
It could be the " Gateway to the West" if you're on your way to Japan or other areas in Asia.
I absolutely love a big beard and I genuinely hope you keep growing it for at least another year, but a bit of beard oil and a comb would bring those sideburns under control and let the beard look nice through all stages of this continued growth
funnily enough Valparaíso, another hill-covered port city on the pacific, was also leveled by an earthquake on 1906, apparently 1906 wasn't a good year to be investing on shipping through the pacific
Looks like Simon ran out of Beard Blaze products.
‘64 quake in Alaska coming up next?
Still loving your stuff Simon.
The earthquake they had in the 80s was pretty awful. I will never forget those images shown on TV. Bridges crushing cars buildings a wreck. I live in Pennsylvania we dont experience earthquakes.
It sucked
Did you feel the one we had in Virginia a few years ago? Supposedly it had a relatively large area of shaking.
@@rogaineablar5608 no I did not maybe because I live in northwest Pennsylvania. Where our big worry is getting a shit ton of snow . Temps being cold. So sorry about your earthquake. Was it bad enough to do damage? And bad summer storms.
PA gets earthquakes they are just very minor. I know for a fact they get them as iv felt them up their.
@@maryannfascetti6421 I had minor damage, thank you, but the realization that seismic activity on the East Coast kinda scared me. Then next year we had the Derecho, which was almost more destructive.
Just saw the 1906 San Francisco fully restored video in full color. It’s 2 weeks old. Worth checking out after seeing this video. You gave a great detailed account of that tragic event. Thank you.
It may have been the beginning of "earthquake-proof construction" in San Francisco, but after the ”Great Shake” of 1886, which had its epicenter in Summerville, SC, places like Charleston used "earthquake bolts" with decorative exterior anchors to stabilize many of the buildings. I don't know about the impact on future construction, but I would be surprised if the city did not require some modifications to protect against subsequent earthquake damage.
Bank of America saving their cash on hand is a great story in and of itself! The owner cleaned out the safe and hid it all in a wagon under potatoes or something (don't feel like looking it up) Smuggled it right through the rioting crowd and chaos to safety!
Bank manager Giannini spirited out the dosh just as flames raced up the hill past looters.
@@blueberrypirate3601 I heard it was the actual owner, no? Started as a family bank?
Bank of America actually started out as the bank of Italy because Italians couldn't get loans in America or at least that's what I heard
Good work, all! Yes, A.P. Giannini founded the Bank of Italy to serve the Italian immigrant community of SF, then it got big enough to be accepted by the banking scions of SF. This is back when B of A served the community. Sadly not so much now but of course they got bought out by Nations Bank who grafted the B of A name onto their bank and moved operations to their HQ in - what, South Carolina?
@@ArtamStudio Charlotte NC.
I have family photos of the aftermath. It was interesting to see this bit of history through my ancestors' eyes.
interesting detail you didn't include about the fires: most fire departments, if not all, were still operating by horse drawn wagons. These horses were housed in the ground level stalls of multi-level structures. Many of these structures collapsed killing and/or injuring the horses and/or destroying the wagons, thus crippling their service. And not only in San Francisco. As far away as Oakland and Santa Rosa, too.
Another awesome video as always!
My man needs to get more on that manscapin on that beard.
1:45 - Chapter 1 - The gateway to the west
3:50 - Chapter 2 - "Living on a god's etch a sketch"
6:35 - Mid roll ads
8:00 - Chapter 3 - Disaster
11:35 - Chapter 4 - Aftermath
14:35 - Chapter 5 - Lessons Learned
17:15 - Chapter 6 - Past , present & future
You are undoubtedly the best at outlining and speaking of this. Thank you. Well done.❤
We very rarely have earthquakes in northern Germany (the few we have had were triggered by extraction of natural gas) and when I was at school we went to a science museum and there was an "earthquake couch", you could sit on it and then choose different programs, including the San Francisco quake and it almost kicked me off the couch. I'll never forget that.
Every morning I start my day with one of Simon’s videos while I make breakfast… so much better than school. 👌
Way back when I was in elementary school in the 60s, there was talk about "The Big One" that would send everything west of the San Andreas fault right into the Pacific Ocean. Someone even recorded a song about it. The name of that song is, Day After Day(It's Slippin' Away), recorded in 1969 by Shango.
TOOL - Ænema
'Cause Mom's gonna fix it all soon
Mom's coming 'round to put it back the way it ought to be
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona Bay
That's right. I forgot about that. Someone wrote a book in the 60's? Published a paper? That California was going to slide into the ocean some day? In San Leandro, south of Oakland I would have been about 15. Thank you for reminding me of this! I was sleeping too peacefully lately!! LOL!
A large percentage of the structures were constructed of redwood which burns quite well. Ditto douglas fir, spruce, and hemlock.
So interesting to learn the history of my hometown. I love the footage shown.
The epicenter of the 1906 earthquake was not under the bay. The fault doesn't run under the bay. It was centered south of SF on the San Mateo County coast.
Thank you for making the causes of earthquakes interesting! Geology teachers (especially high school) need to learn something from you! If they described tectonics like you did- there might be more people that go into geology.
From a Alaska, USA geologist
The last shot of the City with Karl moving over the Golden Gate is one of my favorite shots.
The trip around "the Horn" was about as safe as overland. Which is to say hazardous.
I grew up in San Francisco (born in 1950). Our house was built in 1903, just three years before the earthquake and fire. Our side of town wasn’t affected by the fire, as most of the damage was in the downtown area east of Van Ness Avenue. Our house was well to the west of that, and I guess it wasn’t a heavily-populated part of town in those days. I do remember cracks in some of the walls, and as a kid I always assumed they were caused by the quake. The first earthquake I remember experiencing was in 1956 or ‘57-I was in second grade, and we got sent home from school! I thought that was pretty cool. In 1989 I was living in Fairfield, about 50 miles northeast of San Francisco and 150 or so miles from the epicenter of the Loma Prieta quake. Our living room acted like a roller coaster for about 45 seconds and that was it. I had been on the section of freeway that collapsed, just a couple of days before. You never know...
WOW! EXCEPT FOR CHILDHOOD FRIENDS I'VE NEVER HEARD FROM A PERSON THAT REMEMBERED MARCH 1957 DALY CITY EARTHQUAKE!! [pardon me for yelling in surprise!] It was the worse since 1906 but surpassed of course in 1989. At age 5 in San Leandro it was my first quake And what a first!
As a child, I listened with awe to the elders in my mother's family as they talked about where they were and what they experienced on that day.
My grandfather was in the 1906 quake and fire. He was in the army at Fort baker. He helped with search and rescue operations.
At age 19, my great uncle was in Southern Pacific Railroad's hospital in San Francisco during the 1906 quake and was trapped in rubble of the building. Someone rescued him since he'd recently lost his legs in a railroad accident up in Portland and was helpless. People there had a lot to thank the army for!
Give me earthquake country any day. A “big one” every 80 years or so means that since I was there for the ‘89 quake (and yes, wasn’t on that stretch of freeway collapse that I drove everyday but didn’t that day because of the World Series)
Ct.... I should be good for awhile. You couldn’t get me to live in a place that has a “season” for hurricanes, an “alley” for tornados or the like. My gg uncle was mayor of SF during the 1906 EQ&F (yes, indicted for graft but acquitted on appeal) and my Dad has Mayor Schmitz’ dining room table that survived ‘06. Solid as a rock. Takes more than that to bring a native Californian to their knees.
You didn't write your comment correctly. You stopped typing halfway through a sentence.
@@adraedin Yeah. I noticed that. Gotta cut my nails.
You mentioned that San Francisco created an emergency water supply, but here's a bit more information. Across the city you come across intersections on tops of hills that are circled by bricks and have a man hole in the center of the intersection. They're easy to find once you get used to looking for them. Under these intersections are large cisterns kept full of water so that the fire department has access to large amounts of water with the gravity fed pressure to put out fires on the neighborhoods below.
That's really cool! Thank you
I worked in the construction department at UC Berkeley when one of the older buildings, Hearst Memorial Mining Bldg received base isolators. The building was braced, raised up and ground was deepened to accept the isolators, then lowered back. The beautiful brick ceiling inside wasn't damaged.
Is it true that UC Berkeley cannot build a new football stadium because the one they have is right over the Hayward Fault and that's the only place on campus where they can put a new stadium, but building regulations won't allow it?
@billolsen4360 Memorial Stadium was built in 1923 and is directly over the Hayward Fault. The cost of obtaining land and construction was prohibitive for a new venue. The Stadium received a complete renovation completed in 2012. The only remaining original parts are the surrounding walls and seating blocks were refurbished. Everything was gutted and lowered for better visibility. A new press box and entertainment center was added to the west wall, permanent lighting and a high performance student athlete center and offices. This cost 600 million dollars.
That little clip with the dude cutting across the trolley track was wild
Simon, you need to do a time lapse of the beard’s growth.
You should do a recap of the 1974 Super Tornado outbreak.
Holy cow! It's been a while since I've had time to watch videos! Your beard is like twice as long as the last video I saw! Lol. Also, great video, as always, dude.
Simon Whistler, i am endlessly fascinated by each subject you enthusiastically, and sardonically narrate, you are a perfect person for all of your channels because you are curious and skeptical in equal measure with a brilliant touch of whit and sarcasm, i love everyone I've seen and i cant wait to see even more, because i too am the same.
Well one of the many lessons you can learn from this disaster is don't give drunk people explosives.
Going for a full on ZZ TOP beard Simon? :)
Glad your arm is feeling better Simon!!
A former roomie had an antique stereo-opticon (like an OG Viewmaster) and a large collection of 3D photographs. Many were of the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake. They were amazing.
From Oakland, live in SF and am into 3D too. Have two books of "Holmes Cards" to scan onto my PC and translate into 3D I can share [red/blue] [Called anaglyph]. The stereo-opticon cards and the viewers are a bit pricey for me but some day. They must look awesome! I envy you! The City was techie at the time and stunning how many 3D photos were taken. Several experimental COLOR photos too!
If the earthquake happened today, certain people would deny it happened.
@@patrickwelch3859 good point
Yeah, I was about to say that certain types are happy to point to earthquakes as "God's Wrath for (insert whatever controversial thing is going on in California at the time)".
@@00muinamir And preech how it's a sign of some holy guy rising from the dead and ending the world.
And others would preech how the government caused it with a secret weapon
@@jokuvaan5175 "preach"
@@philipwebb960 kek
The era of hobo-beard Simon....
I think he must be getting ready to do a piece on Soup Kitchens.
As always. Thank you.
Love your channel (SUBSCRIBED)
Californians: “Yeah earthquakes happen here all the time”
Also Californians: “I’m probably not gonna bother insuring against them”
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It's not surprising at all. If you can even obtain earthquake insurance it will be insanely, prohibitively expensive because insurance companies know that a serious earthquake is a statistical certainty in the long term. Insurance companies don't remain in business by paying out a lot of very, very expensive claims. As the video noted, 20 insurance companies went out of business due to the 1906 earthquake. You can be sure the insurance companies took note.
Earthquake insurance on a California McMansion is as high as a BMW payment. And you know which is going win out.
"PIVOT!"
I love that they used a Robin Williams quote for this video.
As soon as he said his name i knew he was going to mention the "Gods Etch a Sketch" line. Robin was gold
Been through 2 quakes. In Illinois. Although they were small, they were scary as hell! We were more worried about tornadoes than quakes.