Description. San Francisco California was hit with the strongest earthquake in U.S. History in April of 1906. Dan Kurzman discusses the social, political and economic impacts of this earthquake on ...

It is a new day, San Francisco. Literally and figuratively, according to Mayor Daniel Lurie’s 5 a.m. remarks at the 119th commemoration of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. “We’ve gone through some ...

On April 18, 1906, the seismographic station at the University of California’s Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton obtained the only good record of local strong ground motion from the great earthquake ...