The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 is the deadliest earthquake in the ... This is what the 1899 City Hall building looked like after the quake and fire. The structure was too badly damaged ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

San Francisco - Earthquake & fire, 1906 "Ruins on Kearney St. near Post Office". Library of Congress. At 5:12 am on April 18, 1906, San Francisco residents were awakened by a 40-second tremor that ...

This film is made up of five panoramas four wide and one closeup of the ruins of downtown San Francisco shortly after the 1906 disaster plus a panorama and scene in a nearby refugee camp Original ...

The San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906 ranks as one of the most significant earthquakes of all time. The quake and subsequent fires ravaged the city, left more than 3,000 people dead, and ...

Wednesday marks the 112th anniversary of the devastating 1906 earthquake and subsequent inferno that ravaged San Francisco and surrounding ... famous "Little Giant" fire hydrant, which is known ...

Illustrations: 39 b/w photographs Map is double-sheet, adapted from endpapers. The first indication of the prolonged terror that followed the 1906 earthquake occurred ...

This paper examines the long-run effects of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake on the spatial distribution of economic activity in the American West. Using variation in the potential damage intensity ...

Since I was (slightly) critical of the New York Times graphics department yesterday, I’ll show a Times map that is one of my favorite visualizations today: a map of shaking intensity and slip during ...

How exactly has San Francisco’s urban landscape changed in the hundred years since the earthquake and cataclysmic firestorms that destroyed three-quarters of the city in 1906? For this provocative ...

Hallidie's cable car system would survive the great San Francisco earthquake and fires of 1906, soldier on through two World Wars and outlast political attempts to remove the cars from city steets in ...