43 



OEDINAKY GEXEEAL MEETIXG* 



David Howard, Esq., D.L., Y.P., in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the previous meeting were read and contirmed and the 

 following candidates w^ere elected : — 



Associates.— Lieut.-Col. W. W. Baker, E.E,, Bombay. Malcolm W. 

 Searle, Esq., K.C., LL.D. 



The following paper was then read by Col. Hendley, in the absence of 

 the author : — 



THE SAN FRANCISCO AND VALPARAISO EARTH- 

 QUAKES AND THEIR CA USES. By Warren Upham, 

 M.A., D.Sc, F.G.S.A. (Hon. Corresponding Member). 

 (AVith map.) 



IjlOUE months after the terrible earthquake and resulting 



conflagration which destroyed more than half of San 

 Francisco, the largest city on the Pacific coast of North America, 

 a similar appalling disaster, with much greater loss of life but 

 less of property, has stricken Valparaiso, the largest South 

 American Pacific seaport. 



Briefiy noted, the Californian earthquake, most disastrous in 

 San Francisco, but also dealing much destruction throughout a 

 large area both north and south of that city, occurring in the 

 early morning of Wednesday, April 18th, 1906, at 12 minutes 

 and 6 seconds past 5 o'clock, killed probably in all the stricken 

 region nearly 1,000 people ; and the shock and ensuing fires 

 mfiicted a total property loss, according to the lowest careful 

 estimates, of about |300,000,000. 



The sudden horror of the first and most violent earthquake 

 shocks, as told by witnesses, and the harrowing experiences of 



The San Francisco Earthquake. 



Monday, January 7th, 1907. 



