Historic Earthquakes
San Francisco, California
1906 04 18 13:12:21 UTC
Magnitude 7.8
1906 Earthquake
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Earthquake Summary
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Damage Photos
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Damage Photos from the USGS Photographic Library
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Isoseismal Map
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Tsunami Record
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The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
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1906 Earthquake Centennial
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An interview with a survivor of the
1906 San Francisco Earthquake
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The San Francisco Cow -
Did She or Didn't She?
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Damage Photos
Ground slumping tilted a row of two-story buildings in San Francisco, CA, during April 18, 1906, earthquake.
The new stone-faced library at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, was destroyed by the San Francisco, CA, earthquake. (photograph by W.C. Mendenhall)
Abridged from Seismicity of the United States, 1568-1989 (Revised), by Carl W. Stover and Jerry L. Coffman, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1527, United States Government Printing Office, Washington: 1993.
