Panorama photograph from Pine and Powell streets, San Francisco, taken after the earthquake, ca. 1905
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Original Caption: Panorama photograph from Pine and Powell streets, San Francisco, taken after the earthquake, ca. 1905..Created By: U.S. Senate. Committee on Printing. (12/15/1841 - 1946)..From: Record Group/Collection: 46..From: Committee Papers of the Senate Committee on Printing of the 60th Congress, 12/1907 - 03/1909..Production Dates: 1906..: 306191 ( http://306191 ) ..Reference Unit: Center for Legislative Archives (NWL), National Archives Building.. ..Access Restrictions: Unrestricted..Use Restrictions: Unrestricted
The 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck the coast of Northern California at 5:12 a.m. on April 18 with an estimated "moment magnitude" of 7.8 and a maximum "Mercalli intensity" of "XI" ("Extreme"). Severe shaking was felt from Eureka on the North Coast to the Salinas Valley, an agricultural region to the south of the San Francisco Bay Area of the long vast Central Valley. Devastating fires fueled by broken and twisted underground natural gas supply pipes sparked by downed poles with tangles of overloaded new electric lines, soon broke out in the city that lasted for several days. As a result, about 3,000 people died and over 80% of the city of San Francisco was destroyed. The earthquake and resulting fire are remembered as one of the worst and deadliest natural disasters in the history of the United States. The death toll remains the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California's history and high in the lists of American urban disasters.
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