At about 5 a.m. on April 18, 1906, a massive earthquake lasting only 75 seconds and with a magnitude of 8.3 on the Richter scale struck San Francisco.
Pictured: A fire in the mission district after the earthquake
The earthquake lasted only 75 seconds, after which San Francisco was almost a rubble, and what was even more frightening was that after the earthquake, a fire was ignited, and the fire burned for three days and three nights, and everything in the 8 square kilometers was burned.
Under the double whammy of fires and earthquakes, San Francisco experienced an unprecedented catastrophe, and although San Francisco has experienced other earthquakes since then, the disaster that occurred in 1906 was the biggest nightmare for San Franciscans in 100 years.
Pictured: After an earthquake ignites a fire, people watch the fire on a rubble-strewn street
Pictured: A building burning in a sea of fire
Pictured: The big crack in van ness street
Pictured: People in ruins after the earthquake
Pictured: A street view of San Francisco after the earthquake