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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 ...
5.0: Aftershock. 18 [17] [18] 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 ...
On April 18, 1906, San Franciscans were awoken at 5:11 a.m. by what would become the deadliest earthquake in U.S. history.
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.