The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

Sega Tech has much information posted today about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake which took place on this date, April 18, 100 years ago.

There are a number of ways to bring context to understanding the
nature and ramifications of one of the most important geologic events in the history of our nation and earthquakes in general at this site...

reading eye witness accounts of the quake,
poring over web-based versions of newspaper clippings from the era,
examining a list of those who died as a result of the tragedy,
looking at photographs of the destruction,
taking a virtual tour of the 1906 Earthquake using Google Earth

and more at segatech.us