EXTENSION: Research how the federal government responded to the April 1906 San Francisco earthquake and detail what precedents this set for future government responses to natural disasters.

At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, San Francisco shook violently. A 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck just 2 miles off the coast.

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On the 100th anniversary of the quake that changed the city forever, the clock is ticking for the next Big One.

The earthquakes generated by this fault can reach impressive magnitudes, like the 1906 magnitude 7.8 quake that devastated San Francisco. The logarithmic magnitude scale means an 8.0 earthquake is ...

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