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"Early on April 18, 1906, an awesome force of nature burst out of the Pacific off Humbolt Bay, raced southward along the San Andreas Fault at two miles a second, skirted the coastline to demolish towns and sink at least one steamer, and smashed ashore at Point Arena. Shocks raced across the Golden Gate and through San Francisco, wrecked the Stanford University campus and Agnews State Insane Asylum, sped down the Salinas Valley and the Coastal Ranges, and leaped the Tehachapis into southern California.
San Francisco felt the earthquake's first jolt just after 5:00 A.M. Within minutes, hundreds (some say thousands) were dead and many more were injured, debris made streets impassable, water and gas mains burst, and fires set by toppled stoves and chimneys merged into a giant inferno. For the next three days, flames consumed Tar Flat and Nob Hill with no regard to class distinctions; before the blaze was extinguished more than 200,000 people were homeless. Assistance arrived from as nearby as Oakland and as far away as Japan, and spectators followed -- not only the merely curious but also photographers determined to perserve the tragedy on film." (William A. Bullough)
The Elusive Eden: A New History of California by Richard B. Rice & William A. Bullough & Richard J. Orsi
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