San Francisco was shattered and in flames on the night of April 18, 1906, when the noted conductor Alfred Hertz found safe haven at the Chutes, the amusement park at 10th Avenue and Fulton Street ...

Ed Archer, center, of Hayward, sits in his 1906 Locomobile with Jeffrey Jenkins, of San Bruno, at a ceremony marking the 108th anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire in San ...

The great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 — which occurred 112 years ago Wednesday — awakened California to the dangers of earthquakes. Other destructive quakes would follow — Long Beach in ...

On April 18, 1906, the mighty San Andreas Fault -- which slices along 800 miles of coastal California -- slipped, creating a magnitude 7.8 earthquake, one of the strongest ever recorded in the ...

We associate earthquakes with specific areas of the world, like California, which lies along the San Andreas fault. A major earthquake occurred in 1906 in Northern California, due to shifting of ...

Ruth Newman was just a child living on an outlying ranch when the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 struck, but her memory of that day never faded, her daughter said. “She would tell us … ...