Earthquakes
Earthquakes reconstructed through damage, engineering evidence, eyewitness accounts, and the systems rebuilt afterward.
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Investigations
The Cisterns Beneath San Francisco
After San Francisco’s water system failed during the 1906 earthquake and fires, the city built an independent high-pressure firefighting system in 1913. Today it includes pipelines, Bay-water pumping, fireboats, and underground cisterns.
The Morning San Francisco Lost Its Water
In 1906, the earthquake lasted less than a minute. The water failure that followed helped determine what burned for the next three days.