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While the 1812 San Juan Capistrano, 1857 Fort Tejon, and 1872 Owens Valley shocks were in mostly unpopulated areas and only moderately destructive, the 1868 Hayward event affected the thriving financial hub of the San Francisco Bay Area, with damage from Santa Rosa in the north to Santa Cruz in the south.
The San Francisco Earthquake And Fire of April 18th, 1906 And Their Effects On Structures And Structural Materials. Washington: Government Printing Office; The San Francisco Earthquake And Fire: A Presentation of Facts And Resulting. New York: The Roebling Construction Company. 1906
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 ...
south San Francisco Bay region, California, Mexico (now United States) 36.9 −121.5 6.5 M I (Bakun, 1999) Reports probably refer to the 1838 San Andreas earthquake, misreported in 1868 following the Hayward earthquake of that year USGS, [129] January 1, 1837 16:00 local time Galilee, Palestine 1837 Galilee earthquake: 33.0 35.5 6,000–7,000 ...
By RYAN GORMAN A massive earthquake that struck the Bay Area on October 17, 1989 forever changed the region, and potentially altered the course of baseball history. The 6.9-magnitude Loma Prieta ...
Location Date 1 9.5 1960 Valdivia earthquake: Chile, Valdivia: May 22, 1960 2 9.2 1964 Alaska earthquake: United States, Alaska: March 27, 1964 3 9.0 1952 Severo-Kurilsk earthquake: USSR, Kamchatka: November 5, 1952 4 8.8 1906 Ecuador–Colombia earthquake – Ecuador – Colombia: January 31, 1906 5 8.7 1965 Rat Islands earthquake: United ...
About an hour later, a magnitude 3.7 earthquake was recorded, also near the suburb of San Francisco, with a depth of about 4 miles, according to the USGS. There are no initial reports of any ...
The 1906 San Francisco earthquake was the deadliest earthquake in U.S. history. At 5:12 am on April 18, 1906, a major earthquake struck San Francisco and northern California. As buildings collapsed from the shaking, ruptured gas lines ignited fires that spread across the city and burned out of control for several days.