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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Shaking Up History with '1906' The 1906 San Francisco earthquake was a horrific disaster -- and the full story was far worse than corrupt politicians of the time made known. Now author James ...

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 ...

This photograph featuring the St. Francis Hotel shows the clean sweep of fire in the business section after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. National Archives Five hundred city blocks were ...

This Sept. 23, 2001 photo shows Ruth Newman celebrating her 100th birthday. Newman, who survived San Francisco's 1906 earthquake, died in July 2015 at the age of 113.