Great San Francisco Quake Anniversary Today

by BMCWrites | April 18, 2008 at 04:19 am
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Is this ironic or what? On the same day as people in the Midwest experienced a rare 5.4 earthquake (see links below for details), the lead story on the “This Day in History” RSS feed from History.com is this:

  • The Great San Francisco Earthquake -- At 5:13 a.m., an earthquake estimated at close to 8.0 on the Richter scale strikes San Francisco, California, killing hundreds of people as it topples numerous buildings. The quake was caused by a slip of the San Andreas Fault over a segment about 275 miles long, and shock waves could be felt from southern Oregon down to Los Angeles.

I doubt, however, that folks will remember today’s early-morning quake 100 years from now.

-- Bob McCarty Writes

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Vinny

Very interesting find BMCWrites.

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at 06:17 on April 18th, 2008

BMCWrites, I like this story. It's good stuff.

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