The Great San Francisco Earthquake

By gracelawton

  • Start

    Start
    URL: <a href='http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-great-san-francisco-earthquake' at 5:13am, an earthquake struck the San Francisco area. It was an estimated 8.0 on the rictor scale.

  • Fires

    Fires broke out almost immedeatly after the earthquake.

  • escape

    almost 20,000 refugees trapped by the fire were evacuated.

  • extinguished

    by this day most fired were extinguished.