Various resources on the 18 April 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Share your old family stories about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
The Great San Francisco Earthquake was the stuff of legend, but it really happened.
Structures surviving from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fires.
Jennifer Rosenberg, 20th Century History Guide, presents a large gallery of contemporary photographs from 1906.
Six great books (and one lousy one) on the earthquakes of California and the faults that breed them.
The West's premier historical library serves thousands of photos, maps and documents pertaining to the 1906 quake.
This large photo (2100 by 400 pixels) looking east from the corner of Pine and Grant streets shows the utter destruction left behind after the quake and fire. From the National Archives
panoramas collection.
The U.S. Geological Survey produced a bunch of great Google Earth tours about the earthquake.
What if the same earthquake happened in 2006? The
San Francisco Chronicle's Matthew Stannard presents a masterful picture, well worth reading by Bay Area residents.
The San Francisco Chronicle has a lively and thorough spread for the centennial.
Across the bay, Oakland absorbed thousands of quake refugees and became their new home. The Oakland Trib focuses here, the East Bay, and also on the San Mateo Peninsula south of the big city.
The East Bay newspaper has a suite of articles focusing on this part of the Bay region.
The South Bay's leading paper has special content for the centennial.
Master site for all events connected with the hundred-year observance of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Jack London wrote of his experience for
Collier's in May 1906: "Not in history has a modern imperial city been so completely destroyed."
A mere month after the 1906 earthquake, Andrew Lawson produced this remarkable summary for Governor Pardee.
This article from the
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America in 1993 applied modern methods to the old evidence, bringing new precision to studies of this historic event.
In the pages of
GSA Today, seismologist Mary Lou Zoback presents a scientific summary of the great quake and what we've learned in the century since.
The Museum of the City of San Francisco has a thorough online exhibit.
A big USGS site about the Big One.
