1906 San Francisco earthquake

The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a major earthquake at San Francisco, California on the early morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906. Foreshocks and the main quake occurred at about 5:12am along the San Andreas Fault, with an epicenter close to the city. Its violent shocks were felt from Oregon to Los Angeles, and inland as far as central Nevada. The earthquake and fire would go down as one of the worst natural disasters to hit a major city in United States history (see also the Galveston Hurricane and Hurricane Katrina).

External links

• The Great 1906 Earthquake and Fire from the Museum of the City of San Francisco website
• 1906 San Francisco Quake and Intensity Maps for that earthquake, from the U.S. Geological Survey site
• Several videos of the aftermath, from the Internet Archive website
• Interactive Earthquake Panoramas, from a website maintained by a Pennsylvanian graphic artist
• San Francisco in Ruins, Aerial Photographs of George R. Lawrence, reprinted from Landscape, Vol. 30, No. 2
• A Personal Account