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The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
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. The ground moved in waves for nearly a minute.
People felt the shaking from Oregon to Los Angeles and as far east as central Nevada. This began one of the worst disasters in American history, forever changing the city by the bay.
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When The Earth Violently Shook
A small foreshock hit San Francisco 20 seconds before the main quake. Then the San Andreas Fault split open along 296 miles from San Juan Bautista to Cape Mendocino…