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1906 California Earthquake

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The California earthquake of April 18, 1906 ranks as one of the most significant earthquakes of all time…. a foreshock occurred with sufficient force to be felt widely throughout the San Francisco Bay area.... Violent shocks punctuated the strong shaking which lasted some 45 to 60 seconds. The book Dragonwings says, Wood and stone and brick and the very earth became fluidlike…. The whole world had become unglued…. I could see cobblestone street undulate and twist like a red-backed snake…. From all over came an immense wall of noise: of metal tearing, of bricks crashing, of wood breaking free from wood nails, and all. Everywhere, what man had built became
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