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"Not in history has a modern imperial city been so completely destroyed. San Francisco is gone!" <br> Those were the disbelieving words of Jack London, as he surveyed, on April 19, 1906, the devastation of the city by the Golden Gate. <br> The day before, at 5:13 A.M., a powerful earthquake, estimated to be the equivalent of 8.3 on today's Richter scale, had rocked San Francisco for forty-seven seconds, with several aftershocks following in the course of the next half hour. As the city's inhabitants scrambled fearfully from their beds, they discovered that the colorful and lively town with which they were familiar was indeed gone, replaced by an unrecognizable cityscape. Hundreds of buildings had been leveled, thousands more were on the verge of collapse, and here and there fires were already in progress, fires which would eventually grow to rage throughout the ruined town for the next three days.<br> Written by a veteran journalist and author, and illustrated with many recently rediscovered photographs, Disaster by the Bay tells the incredible story of the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906.<br>

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Author

Harry Paul Jeffers

Publisher

The Lyons Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781592281398

Category

history

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

2.4 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14