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INDEX
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Academy of Sciences Building, 285
Adams, Ansel, 45, 287–88, 289, 294–95
Adams, Henry, 142–43
adobe bricks, 158
Aetna Building, 285
Aetna of Hartford (company), 329
Africa, 84
African Plate, 59, 62–63
aftershocks, 93, 102, 290
Agassiz, Louis, 140, 275, 278
Agnew’s State Hospital for the Insane, 256
ago and agone (terms), 78
Aiken, Charles, 236
ailanthus tree, 37
air conditioning, 90
aircraft, Wright brothers and, 51
aircraft beacon, Mount Diablo, 43
air pollution, 228, 279
Alaska, 369–80
Alaska Highway, 369, 372–77
earthquake of 1899, 19
earthquake of 1964, 370–72
earthquake of 2002, 372, 378
oil pipeline, 377–80
purchase of, 114
Yellowstone National Park geysers and earthquake
s in, 382–85
Alaska Highway, 369, 372–77
Alcatraz, 254, 343
Alliance (ship), 252
Alquist, Alfred, 411
Alquist-Priolo zoning act, 411
Alta California, 46, 114–16, 201–6. See also California
Althing parliament, 67
Altvater Printing and Stationery Company, 308
Amarillo, Texas, 111, 133
America. See United States
American Red Cross, 363
Ames, Frank, 249
ammonites, 10, 411–12
amplitude, earthquake wave, 399
Anaheim, California, 258
Anchorage, Alaska, 370–72, 378–80
Anderson, J., 400
andesite, 412
Angel Island, 253–54
Angel Island Processing Center, 343–50
animals, seismic events and, 240–41, 364
Annals of San Francisco, 207, 218, 221
Annisville Event of 1980, 87
anno (term), 78
Antarctic Plate, 59
Apollo 11 mission, 2–5
Appraisers’ Building, 311
Archaean Period, 78, 402
architecture, post-earthquake San Francisco, 359–60. See also buildings; disaster recovery
Arctica, 81, 82–83
Argo (ship), 252
Arizona meteor crater, 134–36
Armstrong, Neil, 2–6
Arrowhead Fault, 196
art, post-earthquake loss of, 351–56
aseismic creep, 182–84. See also displacement, earth
Asia, 84
Asian Plate, 39
asperities, 272–73
Assan, Marcelle, 235–38
Assembling California (book), 152–53
Association for the Improvement and Adornment of San Francisco, 357
asthenosphere, 77
Atherton, Gertrude, 351
Atlantica, 82–83
atomic age, 50
Auden, W. H., 50
Audion (triode) invention, 51
Australia, 84
Austrian insurance companies, 329
automobiles
insurance for, 326
status of, in 1906, 50, 52–53
Azusa, California, 258