Long Term Effects
20 000 houses were built in 3 years but they were built rushed and badly making them more vulnerable to earthquakes than they were before
A fire caused all marriage and business licenses, birth certificates and property deeds to be destroyed and insurance companies went broke and stock markets fell, leaving the world in financial difficulty
A fire caused all marriage and business licenses, birth certificates and property deeds to be destroyed and insurance companies went broke and stock markets fell, leaving the world in financial difficulty
The large rupture still remains and houses have built around it as well as other ripples and small tears in the ground that remained
One good side effect of this eathquake was that the San Andreas fault line was studied and lead to the elastic rebound theory