1. Report By: Grace Buehlmann
“The Great Shake”
The 1906 San Francisco
Earthquake and Fire
Report By: Grace Buehlmann

2. When was it ? what was the magnitude?
The Great Shake was on April 18, 1906.
The shaking began at 5:12am.
It ended about 60 seconds later.
The magnitude is estimated to be between 7.7 and 8.3.

3. Shaking Intensity Map

4. Damage Their were about 3,000 casualties.
28,000 buildings were destroyed.
The monetary loss was more than $400 million.

5. Stanford U after earthquake

6. The Plate Tectonics behind the earthquake
The plates involved in the earthquake were the Pacific plate and the North American plate
The fault is called the San Andreas fault
The boundary is a transform boundary

7. A street in San Francisco during the earthquake