Archive category
Urban, industrial, and landscape fires and the systems they changed.
3 mapped events
2–6 September 1666
Pudding Lane and the medieval City of London, United Kingdom
A fire that began in a Pudding Lane bakery spread across the densely built City of London during dry, windy weather. Over four days it consumed most …
18–21 April 1906
San Francisco and the San Andreas Fault rupture zone, United States
At 5:12 a.m. on 18 April, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake ruptured hundreds of kilometers of the San Andreas Fault. Severe shaking damaged communities across northern California. In …
25 March 1911
The Asch Building, now NYU’s Brown Building, United States
Fire swept through the upper floors of the Triangle Waist Company near Washington Square, killing 146 workers. Many victims were young immigrant women. Inadequate exits, crowded work …
