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The Day the Earth Stood Still, Twice - An analysis of the 1906 and 1989 Stanford earthquakes.
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Christopher Williams PWR 1H-05 December 3, 2003 The Day the Earth Stood Still, Twice: An analysis of the 1906 and 1989 Stanford earthquakes An earthquake is a powerful and destructive part of the natural world; time does little to temper the severity of this force. Stanford University has had the misfortune of experiencing two major earthquakes in its 112 year history. The first was the San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906, which took place only 15 years after the founding of the university. Eighty-three years later, the Loma Prieta earthquake struck the Bay Area on October 17, 1989. Even though these two events were separated by more than eight decades, parallels can still be drawn between how people of the time reacted to the earthquake, and how they coped with the crisis of having to rebuild the university. Conversely, the lessons learned from the two disasters and the way in which the university...
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