Bracing for Disaster
Subtitle: Earthquake-Resistant Architecture and Engineering in San Francisco, 1838-1933
Publisher: Heyday Books
Published: April 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781597140256
Subjects: U.S. Architecture - General; History - General; Earthquake engineering; Architecture; History; Methods & Materials; Earthquake effects; General; Buildings
First sentence: On October 17, 1989, at 5:04 p.m., as the World Series opened at Candlestick Park, San Francisco was struck by a moderate, magnitude 6.9 earthquake.1