1906
San Francisco is famous for many things, for one it is a very pretty city with lots to do. There is the beach, the diverse neighborhoods, chinatown, Fishermans Wharf. San Francisco is also famous for the great earthquake of 1906 that nearly burnt down the whole city. San Francisco is known for its fog and chilly weather, but during the summer it is great. The city is also stereotyped as having many homosexual people, however realistically there are not that many. The city is 6% gay and lesbian, slightly more then Washington DC and New York which are 5%. Regardless San Francisco is a great city
Please post a new question with the coin's date. Circulation nickels were minted in San Francisco for nearly 50 years.
The first known occurrence of the Mojave people is unknown. It was estimated by Francisco Garces, a French explorer, that the Mojave population was nearly 3,000 in 1776.
The "W" is part of the monogram of the designer A. A. Weinmann. At that time there was (a) no mint at West Point and (b) nearly all coins had their mint marks on the reverse side, unlike modern coins, so the "S" indicates your dime was minted at San Francisco. Please see the Related Question for values.
during the Progressive Era
A Huge Earthquake. Fires that nearly destroyed the entire city
San Francisco was nearly completely destroyed in 1923.
On September 1, 1923, just before noon, an earthquake of magnitude 8.3 occurred near the densely populated, modern industrial cities of Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan. This caused terrible destruction.
An earthquake in 1826 nearly finished the job started in 1349, damaging and nearly collapsing the outer south side of the Colosseum.
The Chile earthquake, powerful as it was, was not nearly powerful enough to tilt the earth. If you imagine a large bell in a cathedral and you hit that bell with a spoon, that is about the effect that an earthquake has on the earth as a whole. It caused some MAJOR destruction and caused Chile to pay millions for the damage, and many people were killed or injured.
San Francisco, San Jose, Los angeles, Long Beach San Diego and Sacramento are also near earthquake zones but do not have nearly the level of threat as the 4 listed above
Bob nearly avoided the earthquake by traveling East.
Nearly 30 seconds
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The 8.4 magnitude earthquake in Sanriku, Japan on March 2, 1933, caused 3,000 deaths. Because this earthquake occurred about 180 miles off the coast of Honshu, most of the casualties and damage were caused by the large tsunami that was generated, instead of directly from the earthquake itself. About 5,000 houses in Japan were destroyed, of which nearly 3,000 were washed away. Maximum wave heights of 94 feet were observed at Ryori Bay, Honshu. The tsunami also caused slight damage in Hawaii, where a 9.5-foot wave was recorded at Napoopoo.
The official casualty count was 700, but as many as 3,000 people might have died. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless, out of a population of about 400,000. Most of the fatalities occurred in San Francisco, and 189 were reported elsewhere..
Yes.The 1983 Sea of Japan earthquake caused over 100 deaths, nearly all due to the resultant Tsunami, including three people killed on the East cost of South Korea. Casualties for North Korea are unknown.The 1993 Hokkaidō earthquake also caused Tsunami activity in South Korea and the Korean Peninsula is likely to have been affected by several Japanese tsunamis originating in the South of Japan such as the 1792 Unzen earthquake, and the 1911 Kikai Island earthquake.