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1906 San Francisco Earthquake Centennial Field Guides: Field Trips Associated With the 100th Anniversary Conference, 18-23 April 2006, San Francisco, California ... Guide (Geological Society of America), 7.)
Growing Edge (Free subscription) | yesterday
Theo Schell-Lambert reports on Good.is, The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake left many of San Francisco’s urban freeways structurally unsound. (Back then, there were many, carving up the core of the city.) But the flipside was a boon: The teardown of broad segments of elevated road has led to the revitalization—the reinvention, really—of neighborhoods like Hayes Valley. [...]
Miss C Recommends (Free subscription) | 03/19/2010
Footage taken just a year before the Great Earthquake destroyed the city. However, streetcars still move along the same road today. It has traffic lights now! (via Neatorama ) Send messages to radiofox@gmail.com
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 03/18/2010
Image credit: Good The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake did serious damage to many of the raised highways in and around San Francisco. For many, the only option was to tear them down—leaving broad areas of urban space that to this day remain unused. Citizens living near one of these areas, however, have transformed the former highway into a farm.... Read the full story on TreeHugger
Tsunami Memory (Free subscription) | 03/18/2010
First look at weather conditions, it seems that when nuclear fallout, where you want to be? Remember, weather conditions start to the west or northwest and moving across the country and change throughout the year, but always for the most part blow from East to West. So, if you live East of the West Coast could be in trouble if a Western city is nuked. Then there are the East Winds in CA, called Santa...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 03/18/2010
Words by: Garrin Benfield | Images by: Dave Vann Furthur and Friends :: 03.12.10 :: Bill Graham Civic Auditorium :: San Francisco, CA Lesh and Robinson - Furthur :: 03.12 :: San Francisco It's safe to say I wouldn't have been anywhere on March 12 other than with the guys ushering in the last Golden Age of the Grateful Dead. Furthur, the latest (and possibly greatest) reincarnation of The Boys, gathered...
What was the score by Chicago Addic (Free subscription) | 03/17/2010
My job allows me to wallow in natural disasters. Earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, tornadoes they have always oddly intrigued me. Seismic shifts below the earth's surface resulting in small tremors happen all the time, the ground often moves in our house according to the other half.... On a serious note an earthquake shook Los Angeles early today , it was only a 4.4 magnitude, and fortunately there...
Poetry & Poets in Rags (Free subscription) | 03/16/2010
News Article Tape: ( ragline )___ The Daily Mail: Shakespeare's 'lost' play is published. . . or is it just a Double Falsehood? ___( ragline )___ The Guardian: 'Shakespeare's lost play' no hoax, says expert ___( ragline )___ The New York Times: New Life for an Old Play, but Is It Shakespeare's? ___( ragline )___ Press-Register: 'Anna, Washing' by Ted Genoways ___( ragline )___ Asian Tribune: Suu Kyi...
Default News (Free subscription) | 03/16/2010
I live along the coast of Los Angeles, California and I was wondering...We all know that the San Andreas fault has unleashed devastating earthquakes on cities such as San Francisco, but I've never seen anything recording on what it has done to Los Angeles. If a "big one" were to occur now, how badly would Los Angeles be affected? That depends on if you're built on strong bedrock, or sediments,...
Acheron LV-426 (Free subscription) | 03/16/2010
While I'm on a derridata roll, reminds me of how prescient you were in your email from way back in January, concerning Rebecca Solnit. I see Contexts Crawler just catching up , when they refer to a piece in the Chicago Tribune to help determine whether disasters make people behave altruistically or not. Mhuthnance, you'll be interested in this too, as someone who has studied Disaster Management, and...
Key West Diary (Free subscription) | 03/16/2010
My wife has agreed at last to clump Bank of America and go with a local bank. She manages our paperwork and the prospect of making the change was more than she wanted to handle but her irritation at the Big Banks finally overcame her reluctance and she sent me out to find a local bank that would work for us. Bank of America used to be my local bank decades ago, when I lived in Santa Cruz, California....
Apron Thrift Girl (Free subscription) | 03/15/2010
When I crossed over the Golden Gate Bridge into San Francisco on Friday afternoon an excited ball of energy started to build in my belly. I'm not sure if it's because my grandfather survived the 1906 earthquake in this city...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 03/15/2010
Editor's note : We offer our long-term sponsors the opportunity to write posts and tell their story. These posts are clearly marked as written by sponsors, but we also want them to be useful and interesting to our readers. We hope you like the posts and we encourage you to support our sponsors by trying out their products. We were walking the streets of San Francisco and happened to witness a street...
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 03/13/2010
Last night in San Francisco, Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh was feted for his 70th birthday at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium by a number of his musical friends. Members of Phil’s last three bands including Chris Robinson, John Molo, Steve Molitz & Jackie Greene from the last few incarnations of the Phil Lesh and Friends bands as well as every member of his current band – Furthur...
orrologion (Free subscription) | 03/11/2010
What is Your Name, Brother?by Fr. Sergei SveshnikovThe customary Lenten pastoral conference and retreat of the Western American Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church was held in San Francisco from March 8 to 10 of this year. New to our Diocese is Professor Deacon Matthew Steenberg who moved to San Francisco from England and has been assigned to St. Tikhon of Zadonsk church. Father Matthew gave
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 03/11/2010
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Chilean authorities on Thursday issued a tsunami alert for its coastal areas and urged residents to move to higher ground following a 6.9-magnitude earthquake earlier, according to a report from the Associated Press. However, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said no Pacific-wide destructive tsunami threat is apparent although it noted that earthquakes of this size...
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