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The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Archived February 11, 2017, at the Wayback Machine – United States Geological Survey The 1906 Earthquake and Fire – National Archives Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897–1916 – American Memory at the Library of Congress
A section of San Francisco, looking east across Grant Avenue toward Yerba Buena Island, shows the ravages of the great earthquake that struck Wednesday, April 18, 1906.
According to seismologist Charles Richter, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake moved the United States Government into acknowledging the problem. Prior to that, no agency was specifically focused on researching earthquake activity.
The 1906 San Francisco earthquake was the worst in California's history. The death toll was between 700 and 3,000. The subsequent fire resulted in much of the destruction and death toll. 28,188 homes were destroyed. $400 million in damage costs were reported. 700 to 3,000
In the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906, land on one side of the San Andreas fault generally jammed 8.5 feet past the other, ... would produce a magnitude 7.3 earthquake.
The last big earthquake in this area on the San Andreas caused one part of the fault to move past the other by 12 to 14 feet, making it a likely magnitude 7.3 or 7.4 earthquake.
1906 San Francisco earthquake: August 17, 1906: Alaska 8.4 M w 0 1906 Aleutian Islands earthquake: September 27, 1909: Indiana: 5.1 M fa 0: 1909 Wabash River earthquake: June 23, 1915: California 6.2 M: 6 1915 Imperial Valley earthquakes: October 3, 1915: Nevada: 6.8 M w 0: 1915 Pleasant Valley earthquake: April 21, 1918: California 6.8 M: 0 ...
see 1906 Meishan earthquake: 23.55 120.45 1,266 6.8 M s April 18, 1906: 13:12 San Francisco, United States (San Andreas Fault from Cape Mendocino to San Juan Bautista) see 1906 San Francisco earthquake: 37.75 −122.55 3,000 7.9 M w USGS August 17, 1906: 00:10 Aleutian Islands see 1906 Aleutian Islands earthquake: 50.6 −178.36 8.35 M w [9 ...