California's Deadliest Earthquakes: A History (Disaster)

He is a member of the Los Angeles City Historical Society, the Historical Society of Southern California, the Organization of American Historians, the Western History Association, the Western Writers of America and the Los Angeles Corral of Westerners. Abraham Hoffman earned his doctorate in history at UCLA and now teaches history at Los Angeles Valley College.

About the Author Abraham Hoffman earned his doctorate in history at UCLA and now teaches history at Los Angeles Valley College. He is a member of the Los Angeles City Historical Society, the Historical Society of Southern California, the Organization of American Historians, the Western History Association, the Western Writers of America and the Los Angeles Corral of Westerners.

A good non-technical read Gritto In his excellent book, Prof. Hoffman reminds us this thin dirt crust we inhabit is far from stable. Not a technical book, the author provides published citizen accounts and personal interviews to depict California’s largest earthquakes. These anecdotes and memories describing motion, intensity, damage and emotional reaction were easy to connect with my own. As a native Angeleno and now a Bay Area resident, I compared these descriptions to my own recollections of experiencing the Tehachapi quake in 1952, the Napa quake in 2014 and countles

Despite enduring their share of the natural disasters, residents still speculate over the inevitable big one. And the Northridge earthquake injured thousands and left a $550 million economic hit. Home to hundreds of faults, California leads the nation in frequency of earthquakes every year. Long Beach's 1933 earthquake caused a loss of nearly $50 million in damages. More than three thousand people lost their lives during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Historian Abraham Hoffman explores the personal accounts and aftermath of California's most destructive tremors.