Earthquake San Francisco- 1906
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On the morning 12 past 5:00 San Francisco suffered a major earthquake
that killed 3000 people, the earthquake lasted for about 40 seconds and was
recorded at 8.3 on the Richter Scale.
People ran from there houses and some stayed inside the buildings and
were crushed. The people who ran in the s ....
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.... a earthquake of that magnitude.
After the earthquake, they noticed that the San Andreas Fault shifted a
250-mile long section witch tore roads and fences. Rivers, roads and power
lines were severed and not aligned with its surroundings. A road across the
fault ended up 21 feet north of the road to the east same with the rivers and
creeks.
The earthquake's most damage were in Los Bonas 30km east of the fault
yet there was little damage along towns to the east side of San Francisco Bay
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