Gold & Quakes: How San Francisco Was Shaped by Earthquakes and What's Next?

Northern California’s beauty, wealth, climate, and history are inseparable from its seismic setting. Through stories and demo's, you'll learn that the Bay Area’s profound losses in the great 1906 earthquake were science’s great gain. So, we’ll move from the discovery of gold to the discovery of what an earthquake is, and I’ll leave you with the means to assess your own seismic risk and ensure the safety of your own family.

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Ross Stein is CEO and cofounder of Temblor, Inc., Lecturer of Geophysics at Stanford University, and a former USGS Senior Scientist. He frequently appears on KPIX and KGO newscasts, in PBS documentaries, and in the IMAX film, "Forces of Nature." He gave a 2012 TEDx talk, ‘Defeating Earthquakes,’ and has been a distinguished international lecturer for the Geological Society of America, American Geophysical Union, and the Seismological Society of America. A Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the Geological Society of America, Stein also received the 2000 Eugene Shoemaker Award of the USGS, and AGU's 2012 Gilbert White Natural Hazards Award and 2024 Paul Silver Scientific Service Award.

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