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At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, San Francisco shook violently. A 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck just 2 miles off the coast.
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 ...
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 ...
The devastation to San Francisco caused by the 1906 earthquake that struck the region on April 18 has been well-documented over the past 118 years. The 7.9-magnitude quake caused over 3,000 deaths ...
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 ...
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The Earthquake Stronger Than the San Francisco Quake of 1906 - MSNWe 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 ...
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- San Francisco is marking the 119th anniversary of the 1906 earthquake and fire that nearly destroyed the city. Every year on April 18, a moment of silence is observed at 5: ...
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