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San Francisco 1906: Major Earthquake on the San Andreas Fault

August 30, 2011 by Jennifer Young 5 Comments

San Francisco 1906: Major Earthquake on the San Andreas Fault

The 1906 earthquake which devastated San Francisco, on California’s Pacific coast, killed an unknown number of people (estimated to be in the thousands) and was one of the largest recorded on the North American continent. Located on the notorious San Andreas Fault, a major seismic zone at a boundary between two of the earth’s tectonic […]

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