Photos and movies reflecting the damage of the Great San Francisco earthquake in 1906

A big earthquake hit San Francisco on April 18, 1906. This earthquake estimated to be magnitude 7.8 caused a massive fire and the damage was such that it could be counted as one of the particularly terrible disasters in American history.

Details are as follows.
1906 Earthquake - a photoset on Flickr

A district where most buildings have collapsed.


A horse who died involved in the collapse of the building.


A temporary restaurant with a tent.


What do people see?


The dome-like roof remains intact.


People stand only where they were roads.


There are quite a few people, but they do not seem to be doing anything.


A panoramic picture taken by a photographer George R. Lawrence using a kite.


Further larger size is below.
San_Francisco_in_ruin_edit2.jpg (JPEG image, 7000 x 2748 px)

Camera used by Lawrence.


The high building still does not collapse at all.


A state of San Francisco around 1905. It seems that it was a city where the streetcar runs side by side from that time.
YouTube - San Francisco 1905 - 1906 (short form)


A movie showing the apartment where the wall collapses due to an earthquake and the appearance of a couple in a hurry in the room.
B / W 1906 buildings shaking + falling apart in earthquake / couple panic in room - Google Video

I can see that smoke is rising in and around the town.
YouTube - 1906 San Francisco Earthquake


A movie summarizing the state of the 1906 earthquake and the 1989 earthquake.
San Francisco Earthquake (1906 and 1989) - Google Video


· Reference Link
San Francisco Earthquake (1906) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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