Earthquake in the Early Morning

Chapter 7

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Photo from National Geophysical Data Center

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Vocabulary Word for Chapter 7 - firestorm

firestorm /'fIr-"storm/

a large usually stationary fire characterized by very high temperatures in which the central column of rising heated air induces strong inward winds which supply oxygen to the fire

Page 50 - The firestorm raged from building to building, from street to street. Firestorm, Jack thought. The word sounded terrible.

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San Francisco Scrapbook

View photos of the destruction from the Museum of the City of San Francisco http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906/photos.html

Modeled Shaking Intensity Map for the Entire Bay Area Scenario: 1906 San Francisco Earthquake http://www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/eqmaps/pickcity.html

San Francisco earthquake 1906 map of burned area http://americahurrah.com/USGS/EQmap.htm

San Francisco earthquake 1906 index to photos and maps http://americahurrah.com/USGS/Index.htm

Print out your 10 favorite photographs from the websites to the left. Present them to the class. Arrange these as a scrapbook with captions under each photo. We used yellow chalk to make the photos look "aged".

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