dubbed by the USGS as “the last ‘Big One’ in Southern California.” Though it ruptured a shorter portion of the San Andreas fault than San Francisco’s 1906 earthquake, the 1857 Fort Tejon ...
San Francisco - Earthquake & fire, 1906 "Ruins on Kearney St. near Post Office". Library of Congress. At 5:12 am on April 18, 1906, San Francisco residents were awakened by a 40-second tremor that ...
Los Angeles has been going through one of the most dramatic times of its history, but just like San Francisco after the 1906 ...
With that in mind, I began to think about our sibling city up the coast, and the near-death experience it had in 1906 ... the earthquake and fire, MGM released its prestige film “San Francisco ...
Photo courtesy Palo Alto Historical Association. 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 1906 earthquake and the devastating fire that followed changed the neighborhood dramatically. The disaster destroyed most of San Francisco's business district and many of its residential ...
The 7.9-magnitude San Francisco earthquake in April 1906 was the most recent great earthquake on the San Andreas Fault, with an epicenter now estimated to be offshore about 2 miles west of San ...
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- U.S. San Francisco was jolted by a 3.6-magnitude earthquake Friday morning at the same location as the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The quake occurred at a ...
Los Angeles took over as California's top city after San Francisco's 1906 earthquake and fires. What lessons can L.A. learn from this latest disaster?