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- Title
- Facing the Great Disaster: How the Men and Women of the U.S. Geological Survey Responded to the 1906 'San Francisco Earthquake'.
- File
- PB2006110379.pdf
- Author(s)
- Colvard, E. M.; Rogers, J.
- Source
- January 2006, 22 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- USGS-GIP-31
- Abstract
- ;Contents: Introduction; USGS topographers swing into action; Staffers worked overtime aiding refugees; Mapping the fault; Aftermath; Acknowledgments and sources of information.
- Keywords
- Damage assessment; Mapping; Staffers; Emergency assistance; Topographers; United States Geological Survey; Fires; Buildings; San Francisco (California); Federal government employees; Aftermath; Earthquakes; Geological faults