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Casualties. 700–3,000+ [6] At 05:12 Pacific Standard Time on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, the coast of Northern California was struck by a major earthquake with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme).
The San Francisco plague of 1900–1904 was an epidemic of bubonic plague centered on San Francisco's Chinatown. It was the first plague epidemic in the continental United States. [1] The epidemic was recognized by medical authorities in March 1900, but its existence was denied for more than two years by California's Republican Governor Henry ...
Sam Wo was primarily well known by San Francisco locals for its "famous ... no-frills, late-night food and its you-get-what-you-pay service" and 3 am closing time. [2] In the 1950s Sam Wo was a Beat Generation hangout, [5] featuring poets including Michael McClure, Allen Ginsberg, and Charles Bukowski. [6] Edsel with "abused" customers in 1982.
Invented by Italian immigrants in San Francisco on Meiggs Wharf (which was destroyed in the famous San Francisco earthquake of 1906), Cioppino is a hearty fish stew built from a base of tomatoes ...
On April 18, 1906, San Franciscans were awoken at 5:11 a.m. by what would become the deadliest earthquake in U.S. history.
2014 South Napa earthquake. The 2014 South Napa earthquake occurred in the North San Francisco Bay Area on August 24 at 03:20:44 Pacific Daylight Time. At 6.0 on the moment magnitude scale and with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), the event was the largest in the San Francisco Bay Area since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
The state’s largest earthquake on record is the 1906 San Francisco quake, which was estimated to have a magnitude of a 7.9 and was caused by shifting along the San Andreas Fault. Earthquake scale
Swan Oyster Depot. Swan Oyster Depot is a seafood eatery and cultural landmark located in the Polk Gulch neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It opened there in 1903 and except for a brief hiatus and rebuilding period following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, it has been running continuously in the same venue since that time.