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Essay On The San Andreas Earthquake

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Earthquakes are a work of God. He makes them happen and makes it all for his purpose and even for our purpose. Some people may not know why he does this, but trusting in Him is the best thing to do. The San Andreas fault was formed for this purpose so that huge earthquakes would happen and people would put our trust in Him. Due to the San Andreas fault, the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 made the United States army have a huge role in helping extinguishing the fires, supplying clothes and food for those who lost all of their possessions, impacted the city and people, and shows what could happen to the city and economy in the future. The San Francisco Earthquake is known to be one of the deadliest seismic events in the United States history. At 5:12 am on Wednesday April, 1906 it all happened. The magnitude got up to around a 7.9. The earthquake shook for about 45 seconds with aftershocks (Great San Francisco Earthquake). This earthquake started the San Andreas Fault. This fault is part of these plates called …show more content…

Lots of the wild fires broke out and many people burned to death. “Eyewitnesses reports tell of trapped victims begging to be shot rather than be left to burn” (Young). The earthquake had such a big impact on the city that it could be felt by people in Southern Oregon and Southern Los Angeles (“Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake”). It was said that “the ground rose and fell like an ocean at ebb tide,” where the water flows away from shore between the high and low tide (Richardson). The earthquake and fires also impacted the city and people at the same time. People came from all over and some would take over 200 pictures. One man named George Lawrence shot a famous picture called “San Francisco in ruins” (Guevarra and Pick-off White). Since everybody saw how cool the pictures were many people came to the new towns which made the population to grow (“San Francisco Earthquake of

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