The great Chicago fire in 1871 and the San Francisco earthquake and fire in 1906 were tides of destruction rolling for days across large, unfocused landscapes.
They may get a rude awakening when a major storm, flood, earthquake or fire hits their communities.
Built around 1884, this home is one of the few Telegraph Hill homes that survived the 1906 earthquake and fire.
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Hemmed between Mariposa Street, 23rd Street, Highway 280 and Pier 70, the nine square blocks of Dogpatch make up one of the few areas of the city that survived the 1906 earthquake and fire.
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In estimating the impact on the market of the removal of a major U.S. city in a nuclear attack, he analyzes the effects of the San Francisco earthquake and fire early in the last century and the destruction of New Orleans after Katrina.
The infamous earthquake of 1906 and subsequent fire destroyed most of them, and those that remained were snuffed out by prohibition in 1920.
Thus the casino had detailed records showing that she was indeed a net loser. n Losses from fire, flood, earthquake or theft can be messy.
Damage due to an unforeseeable sudden event--fire, flood, earthquake, even vandalism.
There were places that would never be destroyed by a fire or a tornado or an earthquake, just as there were those lucky people who escaped disasters unscathed.
The previous day, America had complained that one of its helicopters, carrying earthquake-relief supplies in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, came under rocket fire presumably from the militant groups.
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Prior to the disaster his administration had been under political fire for the slow pace of government reconstruction after the February earthquake and tsunami along Chile's south and central coast, and for his handling of a hunger strike by members of the Mapuche indigenous group of southern Chile, who are fighting for independence.
While Mr. Shirakawa won kudos for keeping Japan's financial system intact in the face of the 2008 financial crisis, and after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the country's northeast, he came under fire from politicians who found him reluctant to take drastic steps to beat deflation.
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