Disasters & Calamities

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Earthquakes

Floods

• Christmas Flood of '55, by Ross Eric Gibson.
• Factsheet for the 1955 and 1982 Santa Cruz City Floods
• Flooding by the San Lorenzo River in the City of Santa Cruz. Articles by Dan McMahon.
  • The History of Floods *
  • Degree of Damage and Public Reaction to Floods
  • Table of Floods--Dates and Levels
  • Floods and Flood Control *
  • Bibliography
• The Nature and History of Flooding in Soquel Village
• San Lorenzo River, Boulder Creek - Felton: Past Floods

Other Disasters

• The Great Santa Cruz Fire of 1894, by Pamela Reynolds.*
• Pre-1989 Landslides and Landslide Hazard Mapping in the Summit Ridge Area of the Santa Cruz Mountains
• Voices of the Heart: Memorial Poems from the Diphtheria Epidemic of 1876-78, compiled with an introduction by Phil Reader. (in 5 parts)*

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