The aftershocks can still be felt 100 years after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. From building design to emergency management procedures, we’ve learned a lot about how to deal with disasters, but there’s still a lot more to learn.  For many years the official death count was 478, but deaths in sections like Chinatown and South of Market were never tabulated. NPR’s Day to Day show ran a story about an archivist who now estimates that over 3,000 people died. Will we be ready for the next one? I’ll check the magic eight ball and let you know.

PodZinger has over 300 podcasts about the earthquake from a wide variety of sources:

Martin Bashir and the team at ABC’s Nightline talk to a 109 year old survivor of the quake (I don’t think Marty climbed a tree for this interview, but you can imagine him sitting on a branch.)

Weather at  Pod Weather gives you a glimpse of the climate at the time of the quake, and how it affected the destructive fires.

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts SFMOMA  Artcasts talks about the art created in response to the earthquake.

WNYC’s Soundcheck has a story about disco star Sylvester. While he technically was not a natural disaster, he was a force of nature in his own right.