April 18, 1906: Mother Nature 1, San Francisco 0 | john_kaufman

▬►18 de abril de 1906 ▬► USA ◄▬

1906: San Francisco is destroyed by an earthquake so powerful that it is felt from Coos Bay, Oregon, to Los Angeles, and as far east as central Nevada.

What became known as the San Francisco earthquake and fire struck at 5:12 a.m., when the San Andreas Fault gave way, tearing the earth wide open from Humboldt County, near the Oregon border, to San Benito County, a hundred miles southeast of San Francisco. The epicenter was on the fault line just offshore from the San Francisco–San Mateo county line.

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April 18, 1906: Mother Nature 1, San Francisco 0 | john_kaufman