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The 1906 San Francisco earthquake reduced much of the city to rubble and ash; stark images of the aftermath serve as a reminder of the earthquakes and potential disasters yet to come. It is ironic, however, that while business interests in early California worked hard to downplay earthquake hazard, the state as a whole and the greater San Francisco Bay area in particular grew explosively through the 20th century, even as appreciation for earthquake hazard grew. As the centennial commemoration of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the subsequent founding of the Seismological Society of America draw to a close, we are left with interesting questions to ponder: Are 36 million people really crazy to live in a place like California? Or are they deeply in denial? Or is there perhaps a more complex interplay between the challenges that nature throws at us and the way that we respond the way that we are shaped as individuals and as societies?
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