San Francisco earthquake | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 13/06/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_San_Francisco_earthquake


00:00:54 1 Tectonic setting
00:01:47 2 Earthquake
00:05:02 2.1 Impact
00:07:56 2.2 Intensity
00:08:49 2.3 Damage
00:09:14 3 Fires
00:13:10 4 Response
00:15:48 5 Aftermath
00:23:32 5.1 Housing
00:25:47 5.2 Relief
00:27:07 5.3 Insurance payments
00:29:25 5.4 Economy
00:29:55 6 Centennial commemorations
00:33:16 7 Panoramas
00:33:25 8 In popular culture
00:35:40 9 See also



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The 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck the coast of Northern California at 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18 with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). High intensity shaking was felt from Eureka on the North Coast to the Salinas Valley, an agricultural region to the south of the San Francisco Bay Area. Devastating fires soon broke out in the city and lasted for several days. As a result, up to 3,000 people died and over 80% of the city of San Francisco was destroyed. The events are remembered as one of the worst and deadliest earthquakes in the history of the United States. The death toll remains the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California's history and high in the lists of American disasters.