On April 18th of 1906 most San Francisco residents were sleeping peacefully in their beds or getting ready for another day of work. But at 5:12 o’ clock in the morning, when the first foreshock hit, that all changed. Around 5:13 o’ clock in the morning, the earthquake shook the ground for almost a minut

The 1906 earthquake greatly damaged San Francisco and the neighboring towns. The fire itself destroyed 490 city blocks, a total of 25,000 buildings, made over 250,000 homeless, and killed between 450-700 people. The great quake has a casualty rating of about 3,000 from all the causes. The damages from the earthquake and fire cost the town of San Francisco 400,000,000 dollars and the earthquake alone cost San Francisco 80,000,000 dollars. Buildings that once meant a great deal to the residents were now just pieces of ruins lying among the ground. The cities water district, College Hill, was never completely without water, but due to ruptured pipelines it was several days before they were actually pumping water again. Because of this it was harder to put out the fires that burned throughout the cities.

The re-building of buildings cost San Francisco about 400,000,000 dollars. People labored for months and months trying to repair the damage done by the earthquake, but some o

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