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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.
It includes 1906 deaths that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
In 1933, the Long Beach earthquake occurred in a populated area and damaged or destroyed many public school buildings in Long Beach and Los Angeles. Some decades later, the San Fernando earthquake affected the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles with heavy damage to several hospitals.
United States, San Pablo Bay, California: 7.7: 10.0: XI 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
Hansen retired from the San Francisco Main Library in 1992, but continued her work on identifying earthquake victims. [3] In 2005, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution, co-authored by Hansen, that set aside the official 1907 death count. [3] [5] In 1991, Hansen founded the Museum of the City of San Francisco ...
The list incorporates high-quality earthquake source (i.e., origin time, location and earthquake magnitude) and fatality information from several sources. Earthquake locations are taken from the Centennial Catalog [ 1 ] and the updated Engdahl, van der Hilst and Buland earthquake catalog, [ 2 ] which is complete to December 2005.
Train collision along upper Delaware River. Official death toll is 65. 60 1886 1886 Charleston earthquake: Earthquake South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, East coast of the United States: $5,000,000–6,000,000 Massive earthquake starting in South Carolina, spreading across the East Coast of the US. 60 1966 Hurricane Inez: Tropical cyclone