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The Great 1906 Earthquake and Fire – Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco website; The Great 1906 Earthquake and Fire Archived August 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine – Bancroft Library; Mark Twain and the San Francisco Earthquake – Shapell Manuscript Foundation; Several videos of the aftermath – Internet Archive
The 1989 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1989 season. The 86th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion Oakland Athletics and the National League (NL) champion San Francisco Giants. The Series ran from October 14 through October 28 ...
1905 World Series: Giants: 4–1: Giants, 2–0 Giants, 2–1 Giants 4–1 First World Series match-up. First World Series to move to a best-of-seven format. Losing team was shutout in all games. The first steal of home during the World Series occurred during the fifth inning of Game 3, by New York's Bill Dahlen.
The 6.9-magnitude Loma Prieta quake struck at exactly 5:04 p.m., at the height of rush hour and just before the first pitch of Game 3 of the World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the ...
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
On April 18, 1906, San Franciscans were awoken at 5:11 a.m. by what would become the deadliest earthquake in U.S. history.
On October 17, 1989, at 5:04 p.m. local time, the Loma Prieta earthquake occurred at the Central Coast of California. The shock was centered in The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park in Santa Cruz County, approximately 10 mi (16 km) northeast of Santa Cruz on a section of the San Andreas Fault System and was named for the nearby Loma Prieta Peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Nearly 75% of the U.S., including Alaska and Hawaii, could experience a damaging earthquake sometime within the next century, USGS study finds.