Title: Earthquake, San Francisco, California, 1906 Description: In the hills beyond the city limits, thousands of dispossessed and homeless citizens helplessly watch San Francisco burn to cinders, a raging fire that consumed the city following the Great San Francisco Earthquake; 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, fires, homeless citizens, looters, looting, pillaging, quakes, Richter Scale Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 2700 x 1749 (4.72 MPixels) (1.54) Print Size: 22.9 x 14.8 cm; 9.0 x 5.8 inches File Size: 13.52 MB (14,181,118 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000060095 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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