i need facts about the San Francisco earthquake 1906?

Answer 1

One fact I heard was most of the damage to the city was caused by a fire after the quake.
The police were ordered to shoot looters on sight.

Answer 2

The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a major earthquake that struck San Francisco and the coast of northern California at 5:12 A.M. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906.[1] The most widely accepted estimate for the magnitude of the earthquake is a moment magnitude (Mw) of 7.8; however, other values have been proposed from 7.7 to as high as 8.3.[2] The mainshock epicenter occurred offshore about 2 miles (3 km) from the city, near Mussel Rock. It ruptured along the San Andreas Fault both northward and southward for a total length of 296 miles (477 km).[3] Shaking was felt from Oregon to Los Angeles, and inland as far as central Nevada. The earthquake and resulting fire is remembered as one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the United States. The death toll from the earthquake and resulting fire represents the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California's history.
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At the time, only 375 deaths were reported. Also, hundreds of casualties in Chinatown went ignored and unrecorded due to racism at the time. Today, this figure has been revised to an estimate of at least 3,000. Most of the deaths occurred in San Francisco itself, but 189 were reported elsewhere across the San Francisco Bay Area. Other places in the Bay Area such as Santa Rosa, San Jose, and Stanford University also suffered severe damage.

Houses damaged by the earthquake. Between 225,000 and 300,000 people were left homeless out of a population of about 410,000; half of the earthquake evacuees fled across the bay to Oakland and Berkeley.

In addition, many of the city's leading poets and writers retreated to Carmel-by-the-Sea where, as "The Bohemians", they established the arts colony reputation that continues today.

The destruction of various public buildings housing citizenship records enabled many non-citizen Chinese residents to claim citizenship by virtue of their supposed birth records that had been lost during the disaster, creating a backdoor to the Chinese Exclusion Act and allowing for an influx of immigration.

Answer 3

it was in 1906

Answer 4

Try a search. You may find some info.

Answer 5

try the following link

Answer 6

search on google

Answer 7

here you go
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_San_Francisco_earthquake