James D Fallon News Today

Immediate vicinity of San Francisco, but up and down the coast for about two miles. It also severed most of the gas pipes in the city. It knocked over every candle and every morning fire. It displaced all the fluids so the heat had no place to go but in the ceiling. So it created in the first few minutes after the fire, at 52 recorded fires in the city of San Francisco. And the San Francisco firefighters did an extraordinary job in containing these 52 fires in the very beginning of the day. Now ...

So this coming april, next april marks the 100 Year Anniversary of the San Francisco earthquake, which was an event that until up to fairly recently, was arguably the worst Natural Disaster in American History. However, what is often overlooked by those unfamiliar with the history of the 1906 earthquake is that the quake itself, measuring somewhere around 8, i believe on the Richter Scale, actually played a lesser role than some may think in the ensuing catastrophe. As dennis will surely explain...