which lies along the San Andreas fault. A major earthquake occurred in 1906 in Northern California, due to shifting of this massive fault line, causing widespread damage and fires in San Fransisco.

USGS data suggests they may have gone off at the precise coordinates of the 7.9 magnitude 1906 earthquake, which ruptured the San Andreas Fault from San Juan Bautista up to Cape Mendocino and set ...

The devastation to San Francisco caused by the 1906 earthquake that struck the region ... the earth shook for 47 seconds along the San Andreas fault, which runs through the Santa Cruz Mountains.

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 ...

Lawson actually named it after the surrounding San Andreas Valley. Following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Lawson concluded that the fault extended all the way into southern California. In 1953, ...

Within a decade, more than 5,000 residents lived in Malibu. Architects warned of the danger of building in the area, known to ...

That two inches -- the average distance the San Andreas fault moves each year -- has the potential to unleash an earthquake of epic proportions directly under the San Francisco and San Jose area ...

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 ...