Title

The San Francisco Earthquake, California, USA, 1906. Artist: Unknown

Caption

The San Francisco Earthquake, California, USA, 1906. A major earthquake struck San Francisco on 18th April 1906. As well as damaging many buildings, the quake ruptured gas lines, causing fires to break out. As water mains had also been damaged, firefighters had little chance of fighting the blaze, which went on to destroy some 25,000 buildings. In all, the earthquake and fires killed an estimated 3000 people, the most to lose their lives in a natural disaster in US history, and made more than half the city's 400,000 population homeless.
Historica Graphica Collection

Date

1864

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historica Graphica Collection

Reference

HRM19D78_354

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

40,1Mb (1,9Mb) / 15,1in x 10,4in / 4516 x 3106 (300dpi)

Keywords

city California building buildings people destruction house country San Francisco watching burning fire location disaster earthquake century catastrophe concept natural disaster natural phenomena B&W MONOCHROME United States of America United States black & white black and white B W 1900s 20th century American America USA ablaze TGN photograph Yerba Buena Unknown Historica Graphica Collection photograph