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  2. 1906 San Francisco earthquake - Wikipedia

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    Timeline of the San Francisco Earthquake April 18 – 23, 1906 Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine – The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco; JB Monaco Photography – Photographic account of earthquake and fire aftermath from well-known North Beach photographer; Tsunami Record from the Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake ...

  3. Ashes to ashes: What L.A. can learn from San Francisco's 1906 ...

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    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.

  4. List of earthquakes in California - Wikipedia

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    California earthquakes (1769–2000) 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.

  5. San Franciscans remember 1906 earthquake 118 years later - AOL

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    On April 18, 1906, San Franciscans were awoken at 5:11 a.m. by what would become the deadliest earthquake in U.S. history.

  6. Committee of Fifty (1906) - Wikipedia

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    Franklin Hall, the committee's final venue. This Committee of Fifty, sometimes referred to as Committee of Safety, Citizens' Committee of Fifty or Relief and Restoration Committee of Law and Order, was called into existence by Mayor Eugene Schmitz during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

  7. Category:1906 San Francisco earthquake - Wikipedia

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    Works about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "1906 San Francisco earthquake" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.

  8. Why hasn't L.A. seen a big San Andreas quake recently ... - AOL

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    Scientists have previously suggested that quake was distantly triggered by the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake, which occurred 11 hours after the event in Northern California.

  9. Looking Down Sacramento Street, San Francisco, April 18, 1906

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    On 18 April 1906, the morning of the great San Francisco earthquake, Genthe, with his cameras and studio destroyed, borrowed a hand-held camera and photographed the destruction across the city. Of his over 180 surviving, sharp-focus photographs of San Francisco, probably his most famous image is "San Francisco, April 18th, 1906," which shows a ...