Great San Francisco Earthquake

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Great_San_Francisco_Earthquake
GPTKB entity
Statements (35)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:earthquake
gptkbp:affectedArea gptkb:San_Francisco_Bay_Area
gptkbp:aftermath numerous
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:1906_San_Francisco_earthquake
gptkbp:apparentMagnitude 7.9
gptkbp:casualties over 3,000
gptkbp:category gptkb:disaster_response
gptkb:historical_event
gptkbp:causedBy gptkb:San_Andreas_Fault
gptkbp:commemoratedBy April 18 each year
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:date 1906-04-18
gptkbp:displacedPeople over 225,000
gptkbp:documentedIn photographs
newspaper reports
eyewitness accounts
gptkbp:duration about 42 seconds
gptkbp:epicenter off the coast of San Francisco
gptkbp:feltIn gptkb:Los_Angeles
gptkb:southern_Oregon
gptkbp:followedBy major fires
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Great San Francisco Earthquake
gptkbp:influenced disaster response planning
seismic building codes
gptkbp:location gptkb:California
gptkb:San_Francisco
gptkbp:memorial gptkb:Lotta's_Fountain
gptkbp:notableSurvivor gptkb:Enrico_Caruso
gptkbp:powers XI (Extreme) on Modified Mercalli scale
gptkbp:restored over $400 million (1906 USD)
gptkbp:significance one of the deadliest earthquakes in U.S. history
major impact on urban planning and engineering
gptkbp:structuresDestroyed over 28,000
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:San_Francisco_Earthquake
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6