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• Quakes (Earthquakes)

• Earthquake Damage and Earthquake Insurance: Studies of a Rational Basis for Earthquake Insurance; Also Studies of Engineering Data for Earthquake-Resisting Construction (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1932), by John Ripley Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Volcanoes and Earthquakes (London: R. Bentley, 1868), by Zurcher and Margollé, trans. by Winifred James Lockyer (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Register of Earthquakes in California, From 1800 to 1863, by John B. Trask (HTML at cdlib.org)

• The California Earthquake of April 18, 1906. Report of the State Earthquake Investigation Commission (2 volumes, 1908-10), by California State Earthquake Investigation Commission (HTML at cdlib.org)
• Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco on Insurance Settlements Incident to the San Francisco fire (1906), by San Francisco Chamber of Commerce (HTML at cdlib.org)
• The California Earthquake of 1906, ed. by David Starr Jordan (HTML at cdlib.org)
• The Earthquake of April 18, 1906, and the Great Fire in San Francisco on That and Succeeding Days: Personal Experiences, Inauguration of Red Cross and General Relief Work, by William W. Morrow (HTML at cdlib.org)
• Some Cities and San Francisco, and Resurgam, by Hubert Howe Bancroft (Gutenberg text)
• The Spirit of 1906, by George W. Brooks (Gutenberg text)
• The Refugees' Cook Book (San Francisco, 1906), by One of Them (page images at cdlib.org)
• Report of the Sub-Committee on Statistics to the Chairman and Committee on Reconstruction (1906), by San Francisco Committee of Forty on Reconstruction (HTML at cdlib.org)
• Report of the Sub-Committee on Statistics to the Chairman and Committee on Reconstruction (1907), by San Francisco Committee of Forty on Reconstruction (HTML at cdlib.org)

• The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire, ed. by Charles Morris (Gutenberg text)

• The City That Has Fallen (San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1933), by William Marion Reedy (HTML at cdlib.org)
• San Francisco During the Eventful Days of April, 1906: Personal Recollections, by James B. Stetson
  • HTML at cdlib.org
  • Gutenberg text
• A Father's Story of the Earthquake and Fire in San Francisco, April 18, 19, 20, 1906, by William F. Nichols (HTML at cdlib.org)

• Two Days in San Francisco, 1906, by Laurence Monroe Klauber (HTML at cdlib.org)

• How the Army Worked to Save San Francisco (1906), by Henry Anderson Lafler (HTML at cdlib.org)
• The California Earthquake of 1906, ed. by David Starr Jordan (HTML at cdlib.org)
• Personal Experiences of the San Francisco Earthquake of April, 1906, by Melissa Stewart McKee Carnahan (page images at cdlib.org)
• The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire, ed. by Charles Morris (Gutenberg text)
• The Spirit of 1906, by George W. Brooks (Gutenberg text)
• Temporary Directory of San Francisco Business and Professional Men, Together with Directory of Municipal and State Officers, and Other Useful Information Gathered from Latest Announcements (1906) (HTML at cdlib.org)
• The Refugees' Cook Book (San Francisco, 1906), by One of Them (page images at cdlib.org)
• Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco on Insurance Settlements Incident to the San Francisco fire (1906), by San Francisco Chamber of Commerce (HTML at cdlib.org)
• Report of the Sub-Committee on Statistics to the Chairman and Committee on Reconstruction (1906), by San Francisco Committee of Forty on Reconstruction (HTML at cdlib.org)
• Report of the Sub-Committee on Statistics to the Chairman and Committee on Reconstruction (1907), by San Francisco Committee of Forty on Reconstruction (HTML at cdlib.org)
• The California Earthquake of April 18, 1906. Report of the State Earthquake Investigation Commission (2 volumes, 1908-10), by California State Earthquake Investigation Commission (HTML at cdlib.org)

• A Father's Story of the Earthquake and Fire in San Francisco, April 18, 19, 20, 1906, by William F. Nichols (HTML at cdlib.org)
• The City That Has Fallen (San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1933), by William Marion Reedy (HTML at cdlib.org)
• San Francisco During the Eventful Days of April, 1906: Personal Recollections, by James B. Stetson
  • HTML at cdlib.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Two Days in San Francisco, 1906, by Laurence Monroe Klauber (HTML at cdlib.org)
• The Earthquake of April 18, 1906, and the Great Fire in San Francisco on That and Succeeding Days: Personal Experiences, Inauguration of Red Cross and General Relief Work, by William W. Morrow (HTML at cdlib.org)

• The Economic Consequences of a Catastrophic Earthquake: Proceedings of a Forum (1992), by National Research Council Committee on Earthquake Engineering (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Observatory Seismology: A Centennial Symposium for the Berkeley Seismographic Stations (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), ed. by Joe J. Litehiser (HTML at UC Press)

• Estimating Losses from Future Earthquakes, by National Research Council Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Tremendous Event (New York: Macaulay, c1922), by Maurice Leblanc, trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Earthquake: A Romance of London in 1907 (London: E. Grant Richards, 1906), by W. Holt-White (at Toronto Public Library)
• The Witness, by Margaret Johnson (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)

• 1842 Mil Huit Cent Quarante-deux au Cap tremblement de Terre (in French; Cap-Haïtien, Haiti: Impr. du Progrès, 1942), by D. Delorme, ed. by Jean M. Lambert (page images at Florida)

• Volcanic and Seismic Hazards on the Island of Hawaii, by C. C. Heliker (illustrated HTML at USGS)

• The Earthquake of Juan Fernandez, as It Occurred in the Year 1835, Authenticated by The Retired Governor of That Island; To Which Is Added, a Refutation of Several Misstatements That Have Been Published In The "Nautical Magazine" of 1837, and the Public Papers (Manchester, England: Printed at the Advertiser office, 1839), by Thomas Sutcliffe (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tom Swift and the Visitor From Planet X (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1961), by Victor Appleton, illust. by Graham Kaye
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio
  • page images at durendal.org
• On a Torn-Away World, or, The Captives of the Great Earthquake, by Roy Rockwood
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at durendal.org

• The Traveller: or, A Description of Various Wonders in Nature and Art (London: Religious Tract Society, 1839) (page images at Google)

• The Bashful Earthquake, and Other Fables and Verses (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1898), by Oliver Herford
  • page images at childrensbooksonline.org
  • page images at ufl.edu

• Die Erdbeben des Indischen Archipels bis zum Jahre 1857 (in German; Amsterdam: J. Müller, 1918), by Arthur Wichmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Living With Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest (second edition; Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, c2004), by Robert S. Yeats (PDF at oregonstate.edu)

• Earthquakes, by Kaye M. Shedlock and Louis C. Pakiser (illustrated HTML at USGS)

• Seismological Research Requirements for a Comprehensive Test-Ban Monitoring System (1995), by National Research Council Committee on Seismology (page images with commentary at NAP)

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