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    "The Great San Francisco Earthquake & Fires of 1906." The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. Web. February 16, 2015. San Francisco History Archived September...
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    Loma Prieta segment of the San Andreas Fault System had been relatively inactive since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake (to the degree that it was designated...
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    Berkeley. In the wake of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Lawson was tasked with deciphering the origin of the earthquake. He began by surveying and mapping...
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  • the same name, based upon events surrounding the great San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906. James Dalessandro grants his book was partially inspired...
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    San Francisco, California. The neighborhood sits on the site of the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition, staged after the 1906 San Francisco...
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  • San Francisco Earthquake & Fire: April 18, 1906 is an American short black-and-white documentary silent film. The film documents the aftermath of the...
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  • San Francisco is a 1936 American musical-drama disaster film directed by W. S. Van Dyke, based on the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The film...
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    around City Hall, but the plans were shelved in the wake of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, which destroyed the 1899 City Hall. Ever since the fire the...
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    been demolished after being gutted by the fire caused by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The present structure opened on December 19, 1909, on the same...
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    began to rise to prominence after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. As a result of not being affected by the earthquake itself nor the large fires that ensued...
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    The Tenderloin is a neighborhood in downtown San Francisco, in the flatlands on the southern slope of Nob Hill, situated between the Union Square shopping...
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  • major disasters, such as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, or during riots, such as the Omaha race riot of 1919 or the...
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    and was known as the "Great San Francisco earthquake" prior to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. The earthquake occurred at 7:53 a.m. on October...
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    negatively affected. According to seismologist Charles Richter, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake moved the United States Government into acknowledging the problem...
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    founded in 1849, lost its previous church building in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The parish opened a temporary facility in 1907, raised enough...
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    third St. Ignatius College received moderate damage in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, but was completely destroyed in the ensuing fire. The campus...
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    built in 1876 that was destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. The site of the future Mission San Francisco was scouted by the Spanish missionary...
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  • earthquake (Taiwan) 1906 San Francisco earthquake (California, US) (great) 1906 Swansea earthquake (United Kingdom) 1906 Valparaíso earthquake (Chile) (great...
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    the most powerful earthquakes to hit California in recorded history and was similar in strength to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Twenty-seven people...
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    April 18, 1906, a magnitude 7.7 to 8.3 earthquake struck along the San Andreas Fault, with an epicenter two miles (three km) from San Francisco, near Mussel...
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    Lotta's Fountain (category 1906 San Francisco earthquake)
    serve as a significant meeting point in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. The cast-iron fountain, commissioned by actress Lotta...
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    Philippine–American War, and for directing the U.S. Army response to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The east–west streets in the Sunset appear mostly in alphabetical...
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    Sarah Winchester (category 1906 San Francisco earthquake survivors)
    Llanada Villa during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake that caused tremendous damage to the building. Just prior to the earthquake, based on letters to her...
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    started. For example, more deaths in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake were caused by fire than by the earthquake itself. Tsunamis are long-wavelength, long-period...
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    the beginning of the 20th century, and especially after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, many were replaced with period homes. Still residential, the...
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    experienced a period of growth after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake as displaced people from San Francisco moved to the neighborhood for temporary or...
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    Associated Press. April 24, 1906. Retrieved March 16, 2018. "Relocation of Chinatown Following the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake". www.sfmuseum.net. Retrieved...
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    1906 in the wake of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Looking Down Sacramento St., 1906. [verso:] "San Francisco: April 18, 1906." From As I Remember by...
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  • was the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fires caused by the earthquake that was the death knell for the Tongs in San Francisco, as it destroyed...
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  • and worldwide by his immediate response to the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire: "Pay all of our policyholders in full, irrespective...
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