"Just after 5 A.M. on April 18, 1906, an earthquake measuring 8.3 on the Richter scale ripped through sleeping San Francisco toppling buildings, exploding gas mains, and trapping thousands of citizens beneath tons of stone, broken wood, and twisted metal. Herds of cattle stampeded madly through the streets. The air reverberated with the panicked screams of the doomed and dying." (Kurzman) To some, the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire was one of the most horrific events to take …showed first 75 words of 1663 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1663 total…by the summertime. In roughly three years, 20,000 of the 28,000 ruined buildings had been replaced with new buildings constructed of better materials. Almost the entire destroyed area had been born anew. (Dolan p.181) Bibliography: Dolan, Edward F. Jr. "Disaster 1906" 1967 Simon & Schuster, <Tab/>Inc. N.Y. Klages, Ellen "The Great Shake: San Francisco, 1906" 1999 The University of California, Berkeley Kurzman, Dan "Disaster!" HarperCollins Publishers NY 2001 U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Hazards Program, 2000