Title: Earthquake, San Francisco, California, 1906 Description: Homeless citizens in front of the sturdy San Francisco Post Office, its concrete walkway separated and warped, foreground, the metal stem of a multi-globe light twisted to a strange angle, left, by the Great San Francisco Earthquake; the quake began at 5:12 a.m., April 18, 1906, 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 19, 1906 Category: Disasters Topic: Earthquakes Keywords: after shocks, attacks on women, disasters, earthquakes, fires, homeless citizens, looters, looting, pillaging, post offices, quakes, Richter Scale Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 2804 x 1972 (5.53 MPixels) (1.42) Print Size: 23.7 x 16.7 cm; 9.3 x 6.6 inches File Size: 15.84 MB (16,604,466 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000060096 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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