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Earthquake centenary - 100 years on.
(From Reinsurance)
A hundred years ago this month the city of San Francisco had one of the nastiest shocks that a city can be hit with: a massive earthquake shook the metropolis literally to its foundations, while the ensuing fires erupted into a huge blaze that reduced the shaken core to a mass of burnt rubble.
It's not the kind of centenary that a city likes to celebrate, other than to say, "we survived it." There will be no parades, there will be no bunting - and there certainly won't be any tickertape on display.
But there will be more than a few seminars and conferences looking into the lessons this infamous earthquake provided. So we at ...
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