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
Hibernia bank building. San Francisco. 1906.
Wrecked house built of concrete floors, University Avenue,
Palo Alto.
City Hall, San Francisco, April 20, 1906.
The Agassiz statue, Stanford University, California. April 1906.
The Great Arch at Stanford University, California. April 1906.
Gymnasium, Stanford University, California. April 1906.
East side of Howard Street near Seventeenth Street,
San Francisco. All houses shifted toward the left.
The tall house dropped from its south foundation
wall and leaned against its neighbor. San Francisco
County, California. 1906.
Photos from the Earth Science Photographs from the U.S. Geological Survey Library, by Joseph K. McGregor and Carl Abston, U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS-21, 1995.
