The Great San Francisco Earthquake of April 18, 1906, is estimated to have killed more than 3,000 people and left 225,000 homeless along California’s San Andreas Fault. It ranked as the worst natural disaster in the United States before Hurricane Katrina, which is still under evaluation.

To commemorate the centennial of the historic temblor, the University of California at Berkeley and Stanford University have scheduled a series of lectures focused on the 1906 earthquake and strategies on coping with major seismic events in the future.

The next lecture in the series, “Through the Eyes of the Survivors,” will be given by author Malcolm Barker, Oct. 25 at Sanford and Oct. 26 at Berkeley.

The Quake ‘06 Centennial Lecture Series, free and open to the public, is one of several events planned by the 1906 Earthquake Centennial Alliance, a Bay Area consortium that includes Stanford, UC Berkeley and more than 100 other institutions, agencies and businesses whose objective is to use the 100th anniversary of the quake to raise public awareness about current earthquake risks.

All lectures are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on both campuses. All programs on the Stanford campus will be held in Kresge Auditorium.

For more information about Stanford events, call 723-4150, e-mail racquelh@stanford.edu or visit quake06.stanford.edu. For more information about Berkeley events, call (510) 643-9449 or e-mail peggy@seismo.berkeley.edu.