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san francisco earthquake: The ActiveRain History Station: San Francisco real estate trivia - 01/12/10 12:20 PM
One of the History Channel's Mega Disaster shows is about the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
The earthquake struck on Wednesday, April 18, at 5:12 a.m., and was felt from Oregon to Los Angeles and inland as far as central Nevada. It has been estimated that the earthquake was anywhere from 7.7 to 8.25 on the Moment Magnitude Scale, the successor to the Richter Scale which was developed in 1935.
A little bit of real estate trivia from the show tells us that after the earthquake, the San Francisco Real Estate Board voted that, in all real estate matters, what had been … (5 comments)