Modern Era · North America · Disaster
1906
San Francisco Earthquake
April 18, 1906
At 5:12 in the morning, the San Andreas Fault ruptured beneath San Francisco with a magnitude of 7.9. The earthquake cracked streets open; the fires that followed burned for three days and destroyed eighty percent of the city. Three thousand died, and a quarter of a million were left homeless. San Francisco rebuilt in a decade, on the same fault.
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