Title: Earthquake, San Francisco, California, 1906 Description: One of the few water mains not broken by the Great San Francisco Earthquake allows firemen to momentarily fight a fire breaking out in ruins; the quake began at 5:12 a.m., and registered 7.8 on the Richter Scale; its resulting shocks, aftershocks and fires caused an estimated 3,000 deaths (some of these lives were taken by soldiers shooting looters or those men attacking women); Location: San Francisco, California, April 18, 1906 Category: Disasters Topic: Earthquakes Keywords: after shocks, attacks on women, disasters, earthquakes, firemen, fires, looters, looting, pillaging, quakes, Richter Scale, water mains Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 2745 x 1486 (4.08 MPixels) (1.85) Print Size: 23.2 x 12.6 cm; 9.2 x 5.0 inches File Size: 11.68 MB (12,249,324 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000060094 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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