02244cam a2200325 i 4500 975949252 TxAuBib 20231026120000.0 230524s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023025153 9781250279279 HRD 35.00 1250279275 HRD 35.00 TxAuBib rda Davenport, Matthew J., author. The longest minute [BOOK] : the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 / Matthew J. Davenport. Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906. First edition. New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, 2023. ix, 433 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco, catching most of the city asleep. For approximately one minute, shockwaves buckled streets, shattered water mains, collapsed buildings, crushed hundreds of residents to death and trapped many alive. Fires ignited and blazed through dry wooden ruins and grew into a firestorm. For the next three days, flames devoured collapsed ruins, killed trapped survivors, and nearly destroyed what was then the largest city in the American West. The Longest Minute is both a harrowing chronicle of devastation and the portrait of a city’s resilience in the burning aftermath of greed and folly. Drawing on the letters and diaries and unpublished memoirs of survivors and previously unearthed archival records, Matthew Davenport combines history and science to tell the dramatic true story of one of the greatest disasters in American history. -Provided by publisher. 20231026. San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906. Earthquakes California San Francisco History 20th century. Fires California San Francisco History 20th century. San Francisco (Calif) History 20th century.